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5TH AUGUST 2021

5/8/2021

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John and Caroline were excellent hosts today for the small group who visited their house and garden just outside Eye today.  A beautiful garden and views across undulating countryside provided plenty of subject matter for sketching and painting, and the weather was much kinder than it had been forecast to be.  In addition I have work from Noreen, Eileen, Carolyn and Frances that gives a glimpse of what they have been up to this week.
The first submission is a wonderful drawing from Noreen, who took last week's panorama as her subject, and has completed it 'in fits and starts'.  A real tour de force, and hopefully indicates she is beginning to recover.
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Carolyn has been making marmalade, and used that as her subject this week.  Her gardener was impressed enough to offer to to buy a jar.  It looks delicious.
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Frances has sent further pages from her sketchbook this week.
A great report from Sally P on the day's activities.
'A lovely day was had by all at John's house today. Only 5 of us turned up as holidays and other commitments got in the way for many.
We started off with a lovely cup of coffee with a fascinating tour of the house. Which meant a late start for most of us!!!
And it finished off with tea and cake at 3. The sun shone, the dog looked for a playmate and the combine harvester obliged Lesley by clotting the oil seed rape!'
​So here is Sally's output for the day (.The old pump, Silver birch, The start of a watercolour), and some photos to show the rest of us the glorious garden, artists at work, and the friendly dog (Sophie?).
Diana found 'Memories  of lots of  cats ,chickens  and loud music (boys) which June said she could hear about half a mile away across the fields.' when visiting her old house today, now John and Caroline's.  In addition to her tranquil sketch, she has sent a photo of nearby harvesting, of which more later.
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Busy Avril thoroughly enjoyed her time in this lovely garden, as her sketches show.  She will be the host next week in Redlingfield.
From Lesley, first, her work from today:  Pen and ink, a quick study of acanthus, for a thermofax screen, and playing with inktense paints.
And, second, photos of the garden and view - she said, '​As I was drawing this I observed to Diana it was a pity the rape field in front hadn’t been harvested; an hour later I thought one should be careful what one wishes for, as I retreated to the far side of John’s lovely garden away from the noise and dust of the combine.'
Sally T has sent a pencil drawing of water pump, and pen and ink inktense of garden looking through arch (a bit abstract ).
I heard from Eileen this week after a long absence, who said, 'I haven’t managed to join the group to paint but was away painting last weekend. Here are my efforts. It was good to be outside painting again even if I struggled with back pain!'
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I am currently working on an oil painting using a snippet from my cherry tree painting.  The canvas is covered, but the layering continues...

​Thanks to all contributors, and if you have any news as well as artwork, don't forget to let us all know.  Have a good week.
1 Comment
Jackie
6/8/2021 02:50:37 pm

How varied the paintings, so sorry to miss the session at John's house. There was obviously much to inspire the artists in John's garden and much to see as the crops are harvested in surrounding fields. Hope to be with the group next week at Avril's. Jackie

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