The Blog

Welsh Art Week

I have been lucky enough to have a spot light on my work at The Gallery – Y Oriel during Welsh Art week. My work will be exhibited on 3rd March in The Gallery, along side the work of Lizzy Stonhold and we will be at The Gallery during the afternoon. Other events...

Autumn Painting

After a long summer of grieving and redecorating and fulfilling all the duties of a single parent, the children started back to school in September. The Autumn term is my time for painting, I go back to my normal routine, 3 days at work, 2 days in the shed, and every...

Loss

On the 12th June my Father, Michael John Hollyfield passed away. He was 82 years old. His Funeral was on the 30th June and we scattered his ashes into the sea on 2nd July. It’s been a time of grieving and remembering, and honoring the man that Dad was.  ...

Works in Progress

As mentioned in a previous post, I have been exploring a new motif. At present I am titling these piecesĀ  ‘The Lookout’ and the work is currently finding itself through exploration within the painting process. I have been experimenting with painting on...

Fresh Art Fair

This weekend I was fortunate enough to be invited to do some Live Painting at the Fresh Art Fair at Cheltenham Racecourse. www.freshartfair.net My work was exhibited along with other artists from New Blood Art, and I worked on some new pieces exploring my new motif in...

Painting Pause

Life has taken me through some unexpected turns these last few months. Since my last post I have finished ‘Homage to Pelican Island’ and ‘The Watery Edge’ and also finished a few more smaller paintings which are all now to be seen in the...