Art, the ocean and a little green friend...

We ran away to the sea for a while..

reveling in sunsets like these...

Just before we left I delivered these two large abstract paintings to a gallery in Austin

Navigation

mixed media on canvas

24 x 30

Balance

mixed media  on canvas

36 x 24

Yesterday I was picking some vegetables from the garden for dinner..

When I spied this gorgeous green gecko checking me out from his Swiss Chard 'home'

he was a pretty chilled out little guy.. quite happy to let me hang out real close with my camera lens :)

I hope you all have a fun filled weekend ..

Cheers , Helen

Fish ...... paintings and metal wall sculptures

I fell in love with these fabulous fish wall sculptures while away at the beach.

They are made by an artist called Michael Gilbert.  He uses metal from old car doors, panels and other interesting bits he comes across.. they have a delicious old patina , rusty, chippy, faded paintwork.. It was so hard to choose which ones would join my little 'school' on the wall. But I eventually settled on these 5 ( out of about 20 I wanted to swim away with :)

Continuing on our 'fishy' theme.. I just found out that the 2 abstract fish paintings I painted recently have just sold ..I guess I was to buy and sell 'fish' this month  :)

'Uncharted Passage'

Mixed Media on canvas

'Navigating New Waters'

Mixed Media on canvas

Cheers , H xxx

Spring Skiing and some art sales..

We have just returned from a fabulous skiing holiday staying in the delightful and quaint town of Breckenridge , Colorado.

It snowed the evening we arrived so we stepped out onto gorgeous powder and blue skies for our first morning on the slopes.

I got to cruise down the mountain with my two favorite crazy skiiers in their 'Mental hats'..hehe

Staying at the Beaver Run Resort has spoiled me wickedly.. aah.. staying right on the slopes, clicking on my skiis and skiing right down to the chair lift.. no lugging skiis and boots everywhere now that's the life !
Here is the view from our window...

Little Zackary thought it was a bit weird with all this snow everywhere but he soon started enjoying riding up and skiing down the little slopes.. ( he loved that magic carpet..)

Luke and Zackary taking a break after a 'hard' day on the slopes....

It was great to be soaking in the hot tub after hauling off my ski's( soothing my sore' ski muscles )and get an email that 2 more of my  paintings sold in the Austin gallery yay !.. Thanks to Candace and another mystery buyer :)

Bye..Bye to..

'Solitary Sentinel'

SOLD

and to..

'Inside A Memory'

SOLD

Thanks for popping in !!

Ciao , Helen xxxxxxxx