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Live sketching!
Before half term I spent the afternoon at Scartho Infants School doing a live painting session. Different classes of children come in to...
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10 hours ago1 min read
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A cloudful day in June
Journal page with sweet peas in my garden. White cloud mountains, Blue sky. A heavenly blue, of the kind you only get in June. When the...
colouroutsidetheli
14 hours ago1 min read
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Bridges and gaps
Yesterday, wending my way from Freeman Street to home, on my bike. I felt an overwhelming love for where I live. Instead of noticing the...
colouroutsidetheli
3 days ago1 min read
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We are marshy folk
So very happy to announce that I've been awarded a Large Project Grant by Create NEL to do more research into the East and West Marshes...
colouroutsidetheli
Apr 281 min read
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Blue moon in Cleethorpes
Mouse and moon in Cleethorpes Mouse and moon in Cleethorpes with the new RNLI building in the background. I've been drawing local scenes...
colouroutsidetheli
Apr 281 min read
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Grimsby Charter Day
March 11 marks the 800+ years since King John signed the charter to give the town cerain freedoms and a market. I attended an event on...
colouroutsidetheli
Mar 111 min read
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Looking into trees
I absolutely love standing next to a tree trunk, and looking up into the heart of the tree where the boughs meet the sky. It's lovely to...
colouroutsidetheli
Feb 261 min read
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ARTiculate training
At the end of 2024 thanks to some Arts Council funding I trained as an ARTiculate deliverer with the British Association of Art...
colouroutsidetheli
Jan 291 min read
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Back to the start...
My first journal from January 2016. This is the first time this journal has had a public viewing. But I thought it would be useful to...
colouroutsidetheli
Jan 272 min read
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Beacons of light...
I woke up this morning reading the news and feeling a bit like, to misquote Churchill, that the lights are starting to go out. And then I...
colouroutsidetheli
Jan 211 min read
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The common reed
The common reed The common reed, or phragmites, are a real feature of parts of Grimsby that still retain the wetlands that were once part...
colouroutsidetheli
Jan 171 min read
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Under the light of the moon...
Wolf moon rising This was the full moon rising to give the darkness a little bit of glittery sparkle. This moon is known as a Wolf Moon...
colouroutsidetheli
Jan 161 min read
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Looking up in January
Epiphany skies I used to dread January. The greyness. The dark. The Monday-morningness of it all. Then a few years ago I starting...
colouroutsidetheli
Jan 141 min read
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Season's end
It's coming to the season's end at my chalet on the Fitties, the place closes up for winter on January 3 and doesn't reopen until March....
colouroutsidetheli
Nov 12, 20241 min read
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Wheels through time
From 14-19 October 2024 my illustrated work from my CreateNEL-funded project, Wheels Through Time, is on at the Albert Room in...
colouroutsidetheli
Oct 17, 20241 min read
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Journaling on a shiny autumn day
Lovely day yesterday with a special group of ladies enjoying an autumnal art journaling workshop down at the Fitties on a beautiful...
colouroutsidetheli
Oct 4, 20241 min read
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Working on walls!
I've been trying something very new in the last couple of weeks. I was asked to paint a mural on a school in Grimsby as part of the Paint...
colouroutsidetheli
Oct 2, 20241 min read
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Autumn art journaling
I hosted an autumn themed journaling session at my chalet at the end of September. We went to the (very windy) beach to collect some...
colouroutsidetheli
Sep 30, 20241 min read
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Dates at the House with the Blue Door
Dates are available for the House with the Blue Door, it's just a few minutes from the beach and is decorated with my artwork inspired by...
colouroutsidetheli
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Art and gardening
As part of my #dycp funded year, I've been doing an online course with UAL about book illustration. This week's project was inspired by...
colouroutsidetheli
Sep 19, 20241 min read
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