Hello 2016!

To all my friends, 'followers', and students past , present and to come, I hope that you have had a wonderful, magical Christmas and New Year celebrations. May 2016 bring a cornucopia of joy, wonder, beauty, good fortune and all other wondrous things spilling into your life!

​I have to apologise to anyone who sent me a Christmas card this year - I didn't send any out at all.

I did this painting of camels from some sketches I made in Libya when I was there in 2010.
I was running classes in the lovely grounds of a friend's villa - and she just happened to have three camels living at the end of her garden! Happy days. I do hope that peace breaks out in Libya soon. And in the rest of the world for that matter. 

Anyway, I did the camel painting for Christmas but it didn't quite get to the printers - so I saved a few trees, at least. 
​If I start now I might have some for sale next year........

You may have noticed that I fell off the weekly blog ladder in the last few months of 2015. Sending it out so often was probably too ambitious - I'm going to try and write a monthly one this year, plus a newsletter-y thing about classes and whatever else I've been up to art wise.

"High Tide" mixed media on board. 60 x 60 cms

I am looking forward to starting a new series of Creativity Classes to stimulate and inspire old and new students. The first one will be January 30th at 10am in my Manikata studio and after that on the last Saturday of every month. We will explore different methods and materials, techniques and tools as a path to finding unique and personal work. Everyone can gain from 'playing' like this; it's a great way to push the boundaries of your knowledge and discover new ways of working that will enhance your skills. We'll cover things like textural surfaces using tissue paper and collage, using 'found' objects, creating happy accidents and generally having a lot of fun. 

Meanwhile, my weekly classes will begin again next week.
Tuesday 12th at Le Meridien 10am - 12.30pm
Thursday 14th at Ta Mena in Gozo 10.30am - 1pm
Friday 15th at Villa Bologna in Attard 10am - 12.30pm 

Basic classes for beginners, improvers and wish-I-could-get-going-again-ers will start in February.
All classes are 20 euro, or 100 euro for 6 classes paid in advance. 
Please Click Here! to contact me for bookings or more info. (PS I don't teach children.)
 
Here's to the most creative and fulfilled year of our lives! 
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