Jenny Taylor

 


I still haven’t got my paints out of the loft - but it gets closer by the day. One of the things that gives an impetus to this particular New Year’s Resolution is coming across something I want to paint. Sorting my transparencies has given me just that boost. I’d like to have a go at the Liverpool waterfront, for example. What a challenge that would be – buildings, river and sky.




Other people’s paintings and photos can often be equally inspiring. I bought these Jenny Taylor cards when last staying with GB and although I have given the best (subjective view) away already there are still enough to make me pine for both my paints and the islands....


This is another Jenny Taylor card but from her photos rather than a painting.

Birthday Cards

One of the difficult things about birthdays is knowing what to do with the cards one receives when the time comes for them to be taken off the sideboard. This year, as usual, I had some lovely cards. A lot of thought had obviously been put into choosing them. This one, from GB, catered for my love of photography and nature and is of that intelligent mollusc, the Nautilus.



The last couple of years I have scanned my favourite cards into the computer and put them into my computer diary. But that still leaves the card itself for which to find a use. Some are too good simply to be put in the recycling bag. I have used old ones as bookmarks and this year I decided to ‘formalise’ that by cutting some of them to bookmark size and laminating them.