Essex Island: January and AAP news

The first painting in my new series, Twelve Months on an Essex Island, shows the view across the Besom Fleet channel, looking across to Cobmarsh Island, with the channels of the Mersea Quarters beyond, and possibly Tollesbury in the far distance.

I brought back some shells from the Monkey beach the first of my Findings, and drew them using Pitt Pastel pencils on Daler Rowney pastel paper, in a suitably sandy shade! The Findings are this year’s equivalent to the Snippings when I did the Essex Field project.

This is a very small drawing, just 15cm square. It is on my new Small Paintings and Drawings page (see the menu bar above), and the big painting, 45cm square, is on the Gallery 2022 page.

I am planning on making my second visit to Mersea Island next week, and I’m thinking of going right to the very eastern end of the island, to a place called Mersea Stone . . . .

Anglian Arts Project: Graham and I are planning on two exhibitions this year. The first will be starting on 14th May, and will run for the Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It will be held in Little Bentley Village Hall. Little Bentley is one of the churches that we have been singing for with the Deanery Choir, and it is a lovely small village in a very pretty rural area.

The second exhibition will be from 16th-21st September at the Sentinel Gallery in Wivenhoe. This has been completely remodelled under new ownership since we had our first AAP show there in 2019, and it is SO MUCH BETTER!

Put the dates in your diaries! More news about exhibitors in due course! 🙂