Nine Barrow Down

Nine Barrow Down

by | Jan 9, 2023 | Art

NINE BARROW DOWN Polly Pedantic points out that there are in fact eighteen Bronze Age bowl barrows on Nine Barrow Down, plus a Neolithic long barrow, so it really ought to be called Nineteen Barrow Down…….. Whatever. Mark and I were up there in the desiccated days of...
An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon

by | Oct 7, 2022 | Art

AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON 🍂 🍁 🐿 The “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” has truly arrived, so to celebrate the delights of October, here is “Autumn Afternoon” 🍂 🍁 🐿 I’ve mixed some earthy, nutty, mushroomy shades of brown to tone with the muted greens and duns of...
Wiltshire Creative Summer Open Exhibition

Wiltshire Creative Summer Open Exhibition

by | Jul 15, 2022 | Art

WILTSHIRE CREATIVE SUMMER OPEN EXHIBITION: 12 JULY – 3 SEPTEMBER 2022 I am delighted to have had my mixed media painting, ‘Sea Dragon’, accepted for this prestigious exhibition! Tuesday 12th July –  Saturday 3rd September 2022 Wiltshire Creative...
What is a Mump?

What is a Mump?

by | May 3, 2022 | Art

WHAT IS A MUMP?   What is a Mump? 🤔 🤒 😬 Until I moved to the West Country I had only associated the word with an unpleasant childhood illness that made your glands swell up so you looked like a ham(p)ster  🐹 Now I know better! In Somerset dialect, a mump is a...