When I was an Art Student

When I was an Art student I was always hungry.I remember once getting back home and a flatmate's cat stole my sausages while I was out of the kitchen. I saw it disappearing through the window with a trail of sausages following it. Its a good job the cat didn't come back that night as I might have eaten it.

Anyway here are two crayonworks of me posing in Queen Mary's chair in Packwood House. I was modelling for a photographer friend, Elizabeth MacGregor (who now runs a plant nursery in Scotland, just click here for a visual delight on her website). I have added a painting theme to one and a textile theme to the other which didn't exist in the original photos. You can see how thin and hungry I was and I'm sure I'm daydreaming about food. I think Liz cooked me a meal in payment.

Hubby has bought me the easel. Isn't it grand!

The leather bag of paints is made up but I would like one like that.
You can also visit my website at www.gaykettle.co.uk

Poetry and Logs

I write a lot. I keep a sort of visual diary/log with sketches, comments and stories of our travels. I have done this for years and they are taking up space now, I wonder what will happen to them eventually? I started them because hubby and I were always wondering where the time had gone and what had we done. Of course my Art ideas soon got mixed in with travel records and I have started to include small paintings as I don't know what to do with them otherwise. I don't really want to part with my work as its about my life. They look good in the log.

Anyway, I have also written poetry over the years and it doesn't fit in the log so well so I have put it onto
Jottify. I have quite a few works on there and I have had fun making the book covers. My children gave me a lovely sketchbook for Christmas and I have filled the first two pages with images from a recent trip to Dorset. I tried to write the poems neatly round the images.

You can also visit my website at www.gaykettle.co.uk