This is what we are making now
Welcome to our World
No more
Please – No more destruction – All life is precious
Acrylic on canvas board 28×118 cm – £350
War and Destruction
Watercolours on paper framed 23x48cm -£200 each
In these uncertain times – what can the ordinary person do to support and highlight the issues the planet and humanity faces. I like many people have enormous concerns for the future. My recent painting are my emotional outpouring on this subject.
Junk Jewellery
We have a range of Junk Jewellery- literally made from bits of broken jewellery and gifted jewellery finding. Making use of the discarded
Below we are showcasing a small selection of our jewels. All made by hand here in Teynham. No two pieces are the same and they are all unique and original. Prices range from £2-£25
The Love and Peace Range
1-4 frame size 24x24cm made from recycled broken jewellery = £45
5-8 frame size 18x18cm made from recycled broken jewellery = £35
I have had a few personal issues lately and needed to be calm and wanted more love and peace in our world – so I am making it. I have been looking around my studio and wow what a load of stuff I have accumulated over the years. my work as an artist has been concerned with stuff and the amount of stuff we have. I had been delivering recycling workshops for over 15years with themes on “our environment” and “plastics”. I have been lucky with the amount of stuff I have been gifted over the years. But hadn’t noticed how it had accumulated – and there is loads.
Now I have given up on my community involvement- I am back to making – using what is around me. Working out what to do with the materials I have rather than buying in materials for the work. Making use of the discarded and strangely I have loads of bling.
“Don’t let anyone take away your sparkle “ “ leave a little sparkle wherever you go”
Landscapes Changing
Whats going on?
90cmx70cm with 5cm blackwood frame- 2022
Acrylic (mixed media) on Board – £350
This work has been smouldering inside me for some time. Trying to find the impetus to actually paint is becoming increasingly hard again. I often feel so desolate and depressed about the world. Asking what is happening and what can I do about it. As an artist, my language is visual, so I am trying to use this language to portray the way I feel about the place I live and the wider world. My inner thoughts are often dark and dismal, while my outside portrays a more positive side (I hope!). I believe I am like this painting many layered, complicated and often misunderstood. It was good to get this feeling out of me and stand in front of it – confronting this inner turmoil. I am actually pleased with this work – it speaks to me.
This work is painted on recycled hardboard and then I reframed it with the thick black wood frame using acrylic and house paint onto a heavy texture of paper and scrim. I paint quickly building up the layers using a palette knife and credit card. Big big paint brushes, old rags and plastic bags to wipe the paint around. I also stand back a lot to just look. Throwing and flicking paint and finishing with a small long haired paintbrush for detail. Knowing when to stop is often the issue. It’s also quite physical and strangely therapeutic and cathartic. Art heals my inner sioux.
A portrait of Teynham
The Blood Line – A Portrait of Teynham
100cmx100cm
Acrylic on Canvas – 2021 – £400
As an artist I feel the need to highlight the sadness and desolation that is happening here in the place I live – my landscape needs our help – there will be blood on our land. my painting is crying it is full of emotional heartache – I am angry and sad. These are my feelings
The Building Crisis both locally and nationally is devasting our landscapes. This government has implemented unrealistic house building numbers on Local Councils. Local Plans are splitting communities. Greedy developers are taking advantage of the farming industry and landowners. This is totally unsustainable. Our green fields are disappearing at an alarming rate we are building on Grade 1 agricultural land, decimating village life. Creating bland housing estates which will be future ghettos. Why?
This work shows the blood line which represents the greed and uncompassionate approach that developers have towards our countryside and local landscapes. The tears I cry for the loss of our countryside, the natural environment that supports and feed us. This work poured out of me with such sadness. It was scary. We are losing so much for so little.
This work is painted with a carrier bag, a credit card, sponges and a water spray. I painted quickly creating a total mess picking up materials and paint as I went on my journey. It is finished with a red jagged horizonal line to represent our blood stained landscape that is being cut out of our green fields and thin gold line to represent money. This painting cries.
Workshop for the BIG Green Week
Mutant Flowers – The Future
The BIG Green Week 18th -24th September 2021 with Swale Borough Council
What and Why we are doing the Big Green Week
https://swale.gov.uk/news-and-your-council/news-and-campaigns/latest-news/great-big-green-week
The Full List of Events across Swale are here
https://www.visit-swale.co.uk/visit-swale-blog/great-big-green-week-events-in-swale/?fbclid=IwAR09wskkPgCzHUsNOAmusgm_kFxK_G9uEZK3dHT4bD2lXxRyLNrkNTqPxRc
Sioux is creating an installation to create awareness for the Plastic Bottle deposit return scheme.
I will be in the Room – the big blue container at Milton Creek County Park Sittingbourne on Saturday September 18th from 10-4pm. I will be running a drop workshop making Mutant flowers which will be planted around the room. Please join me or pop over and view.
Over the next few weeks I will also be adding to this blog with Interesting articles and facts will also be posted here.
Money in the (bottle) bank: deposit return schemes explained
https://www.recycle-more.co.uk/household/recycling-facts
https://www.recyclenow.com/what-to-do-with/plastic-bottles-0
The Plastic Bottle now has its own Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bottle
THE WASTE WIZARD LINK for Swale Borough Council – so easy to use https://swale.gov.uk/bins-littering-and-the-environment/bins/what-goes-in-your-bin
The Power of Flowers
The Power of Flowers
120x84cm
Acrylic on Canvas – 2021- £350
I have wanted to paint some kind of abstract flowers for ages but I have not been able to. Tried but nothing happened. I need to be able to feel the painting, feel the mood of the work, that feeling just hadn’t been there. I walk past the canvas everyday but nothing calls me. My head is too full of stuff to concentrate and take time out.
I have had a head cold recently and been very sad and exhausted, so have done nothing for a week except rest, cry and blow my nose. Then suddenly I wake up, walk in my studio, pick up some pink paint and everything just happens it is manic, it happened. I sat on the warm concrete outside my studio and just painted. No thought process, just picking up colours, brushes and rags. I was so ecstatic and energised when I has finished. The layers, the colours the feeling. The relief. It bought me such emotional release and sheer joy. I can stand next to this and say I love it. Thank you painting for letting you paint me.
This is painted on a old vinyle canvas stretched over board. When I was a graphic designer (along time ago) I did some big photographic works for hotels, restuarants this was a sample I gave to my mum, she returned it recently. The paint is a mix of household emulsion and acrylics. I drybrushed the background. Undercoated some of the flowers with white then added yellows, purples and oranges. then finished with the drip effect. I painted with brushes and rags. Colour has such an effect on me. This is dedicated to my love of nature.
the meaning of blue
103x83cm – Acrylic on Canvas – 2021 – Framed – £350
Wanted to try a blue painting as I am not naturally draw to the colour blue.
Started by adding texture and aluminum foil finished with silver foiling.
Its April and its very cold.
Polka Dot Arts 