A Time To Give Thanks...

Time is transient, relative, and flexible and has the ability to organise our lives so we can see it in the past by reflecting on what has gone by. In the present we can make plans for the future. I am reminded of the verse in Ecclesiastes 3, ‘To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven...’

When I find myself irritated and impatient at my inability to make time for the my creative process, I find it helpful to pause and take some time to reflect on how much progress I have made already because every sketch, every drawing or painting, good or bad, makes it’s own contribution to my learning process. 

As the year 2019 draws to a close in the fullness of it’s own time, I find myself taking stock of all that has happened concerning my career as a part time professional artist and have nothing but gratitude for those who have helped to make it possible either by purchasing my work or encouraging me in some form or other. In addition, I have been well and truly bitten by the plein air painting bug and am so thankful for good health all year enabling me so spend time scrambling over field and dale. Apart from some dodgy knees that is.

So I give thanks, to a God I believe in, to a family I hold dear, to loved ones, and acquaintances whom I appreciate so much because you have all been so supportive. To my ‘collectors’; MA, JM, GD, WH, JC, CC, RH, IQ, CD, BA, HL... some of you have multiple paintings in your collection. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

So with a heart of gratitude, I look forward with warm expectations to an even better new year.

God bless us all.

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Some of the paintings that found their way to new homes this year.