March – April Newsletter 2025

At work outside the Studio
At last Spring is really here, I have been busy packing up 10 paintings, which, I then sent to Sweden a ouple of weeks ago for my solo show.  The paintings have all arrived safe and sound, after a few very stressful hiccups, much to my immense relief.   Extremely excited to say that I am going to be there for the opening / “Vernissage” (from the French word varnishing) on the 12th April.  The exhibition is on from 12th April until the 20th April, in the Galleri Soho, Valhallagatan 20, 72460 in Västerås.  Opening Hours Monday-Friday 11am – 6pm and Saturdays 11am – 4pm.  This will be my first time in Sweden and I am really looking forward to it.
Two new small “swimming outdoors” paintings, when I had my foot operation, and I had to sit down to paint, I bought six small canases, and have now finished them.
           
A couple of the pieces that will be on show in the Galleri Soho.
A couple of the pieces that will be on show in the Galleri Soho.
       
     
The Members Exhibiton of the Oxford Art Society is now on at the Kendrew Barn Gallery in Oxford and I am pleased to have my “Homage to Desigual” mixed media piece in the show.
   

January – February Newsletter 2025

At work outside the Studio
I do realise January is now over, however, I would still like to wish you all a wonderful 2025 and apologies for not sending my newsletter out a bit earlier. Recovering from Xmas and the very cold weather (well at least very cold for me), this January, seems to have taken me a bit longer than usual.  This year 2025 will have the usual Open Studios and our exhibition in Henley, and also hopefully, a small exhibition in the Galleri Soho in Sweden possibly in April, so all quite exciting.
 The Penzance Lido in Cornwall (see image above) is a wonderful Art Deco structure jutting out into the sea, it has an enormous unheated seawater pool and a small but gorgeous geothermal pool (temperature 35 degrees Centigrage).  I have swum in both pools on a number of delightful occasions (although only very briefly in the cold seawater pool) and done numerous sketches of the pools and their surrounds.  Here are three small (30 x 40 cms) oil on canvases primarily focussed on the geothermal section.
      
“The Day Before the Eclipse”, “Waiting for the Eclipse” & “After the Eclipse”, all oil on canvas 46 x 61 cms & 50 x 50 cms.
I am still producing loads of work on the amazing rock formations in the various National Parks in the States. However, I have also done 3 paintings based on our first stop in the USA which was in Dallas for the total Solar Eclipse (this has always been on my bucket list to see a total eclipse and we were terribly lucky with the weather and the cloud cover).  The first image is of the painting done looking at sketches that I did near our hotel in the centre of Dallas the day before the total solar eclipse was going to happen and the next two are just before and just after on the actual day.
     

Newsletter March 2024

Back working in the Studio
It has been nearly six months now since I had my foot reconstruction operation, and I have just transitioned out of my stormtrooper boot into an addidas trainer (except when I go swimming, and need the boot to get to poolside, due to the very slippery conditions) which is fab.  I expect to be able to start driving in the next 2 weeks, which I am really looking forward to, as I have been going a little stir crazy having to rely on other people, although I have to say my husband Philip has been amazing and very patient.   Plus, the really good news is that I can now stand long enough to spend half days in the studio, so brilliant all round.

SOME NEW GICLEE PRINTS

Excited and pleased to announce that I have had a professional photographer photograph five paintings (images below) so that I can have some giclee limited edition prints made.  The edition size will only be small ie 15 in total plus an Artist’s Proof and the actual image size of the print will be approximately 15% smaller than the original canves.  They will be printed on archival paper and using a fine art quality ink, if anyone would like more information please do email me.
New Giclee Prints:-  in order from left to right, Sea Pool II, Sea Pool Renovations, Circles in the Sand, Release and Sea Pool I.

NEXT EXHIBITION

Erica Shipley and myself are taking part in Oxford Art Weeks in Watlington in the Watlinton Wellness Centre, 1 Cuxham Road, Watlington  OX49 5JW, open 18th – 27th MAY 10.30am – 5pm every day, EXCEPT Thursday when we will only be open until 2pm.
Other news, really overjoyed that in the past couple of months I have sold two of my Sea Pool series to open water swimmers (who would have thought), Sea Pool III has gone to Suffolk and Sea Pool II now lives in Devon. I had a mixed media acrylic and collage accepted into  the RSWA – the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Open Exhibition which was in January (this also sold) and I currently have one piece (Harbour Walls) in the AKA Gallery in Cambridge in their Open Spring Exhibition which runs until 13th April.
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Newsletter November 2023

Not able to work in studio at the moment due to foot operation!

NEWSLETTER

It is going to be December tomorrow, eek, somewhat scary how life is whizzing by, even when I have been laid up due to a foot reconstruction operation on 10th October.   Six weeks no weight bearing, that has been quite tough, but the good news is that I can now do partial weight bearing with my storm trooper boot on and everything is progressing nicely, I hope to be able to go for a swim in a couple of weeks.

So, art wise, obviously I have not been able to get into the studio for a while, although I have been managing to do some collage and sketchbook stuff, including an online concertina sketchbook course by Karen Stamper – she is amazing, and her online courses are the best I have come across for visual simplicity and fun.
In September with Erica Shipley and three, 3D artists  (sculpture, ceramics and glass) we had a wonderful week long exhibition in “The Old Fire Station Gallery” in Henley-on-Thames, – I have hopefully added a link to my homemade video (click here) of the exhibition for anyone who would like to see it.  And then just before my operation I managed to squeeze in a week down in Cornwall (Porthleven) doing a “Freedom in Painting” course with Ashley Hanson (always a brilliant tutor) and so fantastic to be down in Cornwall.
Something else that my be of interest is that I did an interview about myself and my art for Instagram / You Tube channel called ArtByArtist anyway link to video (click here) attached, slightly weird as I was sent the questions by email, so I have to ask and answer the questions, also, sorry about the ads at the beginning I have no idea how to delete them, way beyond my level of video skills at the moment.
Other news is that I have two large paintings going in to the AKA Gallery in Cambridge next week for their winter exhibition (images below) and I had a picture in the Ing Discerning Eye exhibition in the Mall Galleries in London, so all in all even with the foot, pretty good.

Anyway, wishing you all a wonderful Xmas and hope that 2024     is a fantastic year for you  ~ Antonia

My two pictures going into the AKA Gallery in Cambridge for their winter show.
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