More paintings of canna lilies followed
Cannas in Autumn 2023
25x20cm Oil on paper on canvas
In the summer of 2022-3 I was ready to start painting again.
My cannas were lighting up my garden and some rural roadsides. I made many drawings and started planning. I wanted to combine colour and line.
After several online tutorials and many retakes, here it is.
As things began to improve in 2022 I felt the need for more colour in my work. I still had plenty of bits and pieces from earlier projects tucked away in my studio, so I decided to use them to make a series of small assemblages. Thematically they would relate to my books.
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Planning layouts on top of the underpaintings on the sheet of watercolour paper |
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Much further on: I decided to make them round on square canvases |
In late March 2020, NZ went into COVID lockdown. In early April my husband became very ill with Parkinson's disease complications and was taken to hospital, his condition deteriorated and he passed away two weeks later. As we were still in lockdown visiting was very limited, it was a very difficult time for our family. We'd been married for 49 years.
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Work in progress: early stages |
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Planning the pages for 'Hurly-Burly': paintings, collagraph prints, digital prints |
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The last stitches |