An invite to collaborate?
An artist pal sent out an invite to painters to do a painting or drawing each week for a year for a collaboration.
I felt excited to be part of a collective like this. About ten artists from all over Ireland were involved and we shared our work on Facebook each day. It was inspiring to see how our work progressed and we had a very fine on-line exhibition among ourselves at the year end.
52 Watercolour paintings of flowers
Early on I decided to do small pieces, as I knew that doing anything big would have to grapple with major life events, as they tend to pop up now and again!
It was early inthe year, and we were observing the warming up of the earth after the winter and regeneration of plant life, I put my energies into painting flowers
Most of the plants I painted I found in our garden. Others were inspired by photos I had taken previously. It was amazing to find quite a few flowers growing in what looked like a garden still very much asleep.
I enjoyed painting these little images and connecting with the plants.
I asked that a word would come to me as I worked quietly to describe their essence.
After I had completed these little paintings, I felt they deserved a life of their own.
So, eventually after experimenting with many ideas for printing them to their best advantage and trawling through the Internet for ideas for packaging, I got to work and made up packets of Inspirational Flower Cards.
There are as many ways to use them as we can think of !
Use them as divination cards, give them away, be inspired to connect with your own creativity and create art pieces from them, use them to connect with nature and lots more.
From time to time, I have reprints done and add them to my website.
Enjoy !