13 January 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR

As I sit here on the bed in our hotel in Terracina, Italy, listening to the dinging and donging of the church bells from what sounds like 4 different churches, I feel its a shame to post this blog without at least something visual to start 2012 with. So to keep things going, here's a small collage of some of my photos from the recent travels.
Its nearly halfway through January and 2012 is already speeding along. My Australian/New Zealand, USA trip is behind me - well almost, as next stop is Greece, hopefully on tomorrow's overnight ferry, then on to Koroni to some sort of normality for a while. I have so many blogs to write to cover the last few months, and I will do so, gradually.

In the meantime, I'd like to wish everyone all the very best for a happy and healthy 2012, and may we all manage to do some of those things we've been putting off for ever and ever. Don't delay any longer...... just do it NOW....... the time will never be right if you wait.

24 November 2011

CHANGEABLE ART EXHIBITION 10th December 2011

Things in Sydney are pretty hectic, but I will get onto this blog very soon.  I'm looking forward to taking part in a one day exhibition here on Saturday 10th December. I'll have a lot of my smaller new work available, so come along and say hello and check it out. Details  below.....


















10am - 3pm 10th December 2011
North Sydney Community Centre
220 Miller Street, North Sydney
Changeable Art is held in conjunction with the North Sydney market


31 October 2011

A Painting A Week No 96


















For Sale - 31st October 2011
Lunch in Gythio, Greece
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

Gythio is a town towards the bottom of the Mani Peninsula in the Peloponnese - the landscape we see across the bay from Koroni when its not covered in cloud!  The Mani is a very mountainous area, with rugged landscape and high peaks. Various ferries to some of the islands leave from Gythio, and its a good lunch spot!

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on the following link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you'd rather deal with me direct, please email me at either jackiesinfrance@hotmail.com or jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

05 October 2011

A Painting A Week No 95



















For Sale - 4th October 2011  
[SOLD]
Le Bellevue, L'Isle sur la Sorgue
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

Back in the Languedoc region of France again and its lovely to be amongst the never-ending rows of vines and the big blue skies.  I did this painting after a visit to the lovely Luberon town of L'Isle sur la Sorgue on a previous trip. This restaurant always caught my eye when we wandered around - I suspect it was all the red with the deep green of one of the many the canals behind. If you've been there, you'll know what I mean.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on the following link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you'd rather deal with me direct, please email me at either jackiesinfrance@hotmail.com or jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

26 September 2011

A Painting A Week No 94


















For Sale - 26th September 2011
Sunflowers under Summer Skies, France
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

The smiling faces of sunflowers all over France are a lovely reminder of summer. With autumn approaching in the northern hemisphere, and spring underway in the southern, I thought it might be a nice theme this week!

As mentioned in my email, we're heading off from Koroni tomorrow - see details in the previous blog underneath.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on the following link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you'd rather deal with me direct, please email me at either jackiesinfrance@hotmail.com or jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

Greece to Sydney

Its that time again. We're off on Tuesday on the slow jaunt back to Sydney. It starts with the overnight ferry crossing from Patras to Brindisi, with a a few days en-route in Italy filling our systems with great Italian coffee and pasta. Then to our old stompin' ground in the Languedoc region of France to take care of a few things, enjoy some almond croissants (but not the coffee) before we fly out of Toulouse to Los Angeles. This is the first time Peter and I have flown internationally together - should be fun!  I have a few days in LA to sightsee and do some shopping, then head off to New Zealand for 10 days to spend time with my sisters. I rendezvous with Peter in Sydney on 24th October and we'll be residents of Potts Point for the first month, and then Lane Cove for the following 3 weeks.  Its been over 18 months since I've been back and I'm really looking forward to seeing family and friends in that part of the world.

I'm really hoping to continue with the Art Weekly whilst I'm gone - it may be a bit haphazard, but I'm determined, and I'd like to attempt some Australian and New Zealand themes along with the usuals. I believe there are all sorts of new cafes that need checking out, so perhaps I can try my hand at some of those!

I do have a one day art exhibition planned with Changeable Art in North Sydney on 10th December. There will be plenty of new work lots of small framed and unframed paintings for sale - perfect Christmas presents!

14 September 2011

A Painting A Week No 93


















For Sale - 14th September 2011
The Flamingos of the Languedoc
Size: 21 x 15cm
Price A$90
(Postage and handling included)

One doesn't really associate flamingos with France, but near Montpellier, on the edge of the Camargue, there are numerous lagoons and canals, and that's where you'll find the flamingos!  Depending upon the time of the year (the majority do migrate south in the winter), you can see groups of them standing in the water, heads down whilst feeding on the salt shrimp which gives them their colour, or heads waving about in the air. Apart from the Camargue, south of Arles, the flamgoes mostly frequent the marshes near Palavas les Flots and on any trip through there, I've had the camera at the ready to photograph them - always tricky to find them in the right spot.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on the following link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you'd rather deal with me direct, please email me at either jackiesinfrance@hotmail.com or jackie@jackiesherwood.com.