Spring 2025

" Spring is here....."

As the SGFA Annual Open in the iconic Mall Galleries in London rapidly approaches, I have turned my attention to new monthly courses at Missenden Abbey in Buckinghamshire as well as other venues, and to preparing some more new work for Waterperry House Gallery, Wheatley in Oxfordshire. All very exciting.

My latest work in Mall Galleries features some pieces created using the beautiful Daniel Smith pure pigment range of watercolours, that I mentioned in my last blog. both on mould made papers and handmade paper by Two Rivers, which I absolutely love.

So more experimenting, now pulling together ideas for the Spring, with its beautiful colours and yet more ideas as the sun rises at long last.

I am enjoying playing with Khadi papers of various weights too, finding the power of the colours just leaping off the paper in quite a different manner to my usual spatial pieces.

Printing with saturated lightweight papers also is creating interesting surfaces, as with preparing surfaces with acrylic before painting.

See some experimental images here........a great introduction to brush practice. Enjoy!

More details on courses - look at www.missendenschoolofcreativearts.co.uk.

Continue to enjoy your watercolour journey.

Jackie Devereux
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