I’ve missed a few months of the Blog due to having been busy preparing paintings for various exhibitions and fairs.

Currently I have two paintings in the Glasgow Society of Women Artists’s (GSWA) ‘Exhibition of Small Works of Art’ being held at the RGI/Kelly Gallery, 118 Douglas Street, Glasgow, 1st - 13th March 2010. One of the paintings is called Dordogne Hillside and you can see it below.

The GSWA has been in existence since 1882 and was originally formed by the first eight female students of The Glasgow School of Art. It now has a membership of around 140 elected artists. www.gswa.org.uk

I’ve also been teaching watercolour painting to new students. In the first lesson we’ve looked at how to use a variety of techniques and materials, starting with a large piece of cartridge paper and making all sorts of marks and designs.

The second part of the lesson involved looking at various shapes of objects and the spaces in between them and how to put shapes together to form a good composition.

Aileen