Artwork Description:
Title: Day 539 (23rd June 2024) Norham Castle.
Day 539 (23rd June 2024) Norham Castle
Went to an art workshop. Beautiful day, walk along the River Tweed. Wrote some poetry as I walked and then painted the same scene as Turner.
A walk along the River Tweed.
Wrens competing for dominance of silence
Bumblebee basking in the sun.
Horse chestnuts act as umbrellas – shading and protecting.
Memories of Martin Gillham and Donald.
The Tweed – graceful and true, sometimes smooth, sometimes turbulent and dancing, talking to itself.
Swans preening and maintaining bonds at the rivers edge. Silently communicating their lifetime of love.
Shades of green mingling with blue, reflecting, dissolving patterns, shimmering stones.
Comfrey a home for many, bees humming to it and thanking it for its sustenance.
Cow Parsley not impersonating Hemlock.
Grasses in symmetrical competition. A myriad of pinks and purples in and out of sync.
Butterbur shooting up, massive leafs, massive umbrellas- a city within.
Cobble boats silent and waiting, waiting for gillies with talented instruction.
Oak, Sycamore, Willow, Alder and Cherry a community of trees. A choir rustling in the wind.
A blackbird owning the path with its song, indignantly wagging its tale. Noting and making its presence felt.
Chiff Chaffs remembering and forgetting, remembering and forgetting, remembering and forgetting, rem
Hedge Woundwort – sending spears of purple upwards through a tangle of ‘do you like butter’ Meadow Buttercup.
Nettles dead and not dead happy to be together. Providing.
Yellow lichen smothering ash, symbiotic and family.
Sticky willow unstuck, waiting for four legged moving transport.
The Tweed.
Nature journal entry.
Painted in watercolour into a Moleskin watercolour notebook.
Actual size: 8″ x 5″ (20.5 cm x 13 cm).
Artist Bio:
I am passionate about nature – I have been my entire life, from walking in the Lake District as a teenager to setting up a social enterprise
(Instinctively Wild CIC) specialising in Forest Schools and Eco-therapy in the Scottish Borders and Lothians.
I am a nature journalist, I chronicle nature around me on a daily basis in the watercolour medium. I use my photgraphic skills to capture images and then paint the best of those images in watercolour.
I am an educator, artist and social entrepreneur.
My background over the last twenty four years has been primary school teaching, specialising in Forest Schools and Outdoor Learning.
Every day I make space for nature, trying to capture it in all its moods, whether that’s the sky, birds, plants, insects, trees or any other aspect of nature.
As John Muir said, “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” This is what I strive for each day.
I am a self-taught artist.
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