Wednesday...

The garden is thinning, but there's still colour hidden amongst the sticks...

Monday...with Yellow Canvas Beauty

This is the second of four posts showing some of the process and images I shot for Australian based Canvas Beauty who asked me to create some unique table photographs for them...

I had so many shasta daisies over the Summer that I decided to work on two yellow themes...

As the daisies are bold, I tried to soften them with honeysuckle, ferns, marjoram, fennel and seeds whilst reflecting the yellow centres with the lemons...

As Canvas use loads of natural products I wanted to include at least a few edible and aromatic flowers too...

( although these beautiful hand made wooden boxes used for storing oils smelled amazing anyway! )

As Canvas is based in Australia I found a couple of vintage maps to include in the composition...

( you can see the other one here and here... )

Canvas Beauty pride themselves on their products which are full of wonderful herbal extracts and unique essential oils harnessing natural power as well as a natural healing therapy.

Follow them on Instagram @canvasbeautyau and on Facebook where you can see more of my photos

* this is a sponsored post 

Friday...

It’s been a bit of a busy, multi tasking week, as tonight I have the Private View for my new exhibition ‘Sea Marks’ at 35 North Contemporary Art Gallery in Brighton...

It’s an exhibition which combines all my work process with sketches, texture studies, paintings and photographs with inspiration from Brighton, Hastings and Cornwall...

I’ve been cutting it a bit fine with the painting and some of them were still a bit wet when they were framed and when  I hung them yesterday! 

You can read a bit more about the gallery and exhibition here, and if you’re in Brighton over the next 4 weeks and fancy a nosey, the gallery is open Thursday - Sunday.

Next week I’ll be tidying the garden which is getting overrun by Autumn!

Thursday...

Just a quick post to remind you that you still have a few days to pre order your calendars on my etsy shop with the 20% discount using code: 5ftinfcal20 ( you use it at the checkout )

...and I've also just listed some packs of cards too! 

(...and the floor is definitely getting a re-paint next month! )

Saturday...

This week has been dark and rainy...

It always feels strange when the light changes in the mornings...I’m a very early riser and I really miss the light mornings of Summer...

However Autumn holds such amazing colour, and even with rain preventing me from being in the garden more at the moment, there’s something cosy, reflective and completely fulfilling to the senses about it....

I went out early this morning, even though it was still quite dark and the starlings were chattering like mad ahead of their Autumnal murmurations...

There was a big storm last night so the garden was soaked...

( This is my new Autumn purchase by the way, as the old one wasn’t going to withhold another season! )

I burn a lot of my garden waste and then use the ash to dig into the garden during the spring as it helps with soil drainage, and I also love the fact that I dig everything back in to where it started from....

The nasturtiums are, of course, going strong and I’m still picking loads of them, but the rain last night had weighed them down and damaged them a little...

They will basically keep going until the first frost, which then kills them all in one morning!

...so the snails have only got a few weeks left!

(I took this picture yesterday, before the rain...)

but it is the way their leaves hold the rain which was my inspiration this morning...

Thursday...

Today I needed some pink...no reason; that’s just what I suddenly knew I needed to see.

I had in mind some of those rosy snowberries at first, but when I went out to the green grocers, the rhubarb had me at first glance!

( ...and thought I’d share one of my tricks to get roses to stand up without cutting off their whole stem! )

Tuesday...

...words don't seem to be doing me any favours today, so it's just pictures...😉