Jessie Lilac Blog

It's soon time to take down my exhibition in Dartmouth. I was very happy to sell one of my big paintings! 2015 ended with a fantastic family christmas. It was a crazy few days, noisy, busy but so lovely having everyone together! After everyone had returned home, we spent a couple of days of quietness in a beautiful place. I enjoyed the view while Middle Daughter looked for kelp to use in a recipe. New year's Eve was my birthday and we had a day out at Lyme Regis. It had rained most of the day but just before sunset the sky cleared and I was rewarded with a beautiful sky.  What a lovely end to the year. Happy new year to you! Thankyou for visiting my blog. ♥  I wish you the very best for 2016, may it bring you everything you hope and dream. xx

Phew that was a busy time! My exhibition in Dartmouth is hung at last and both Peri and myself are feeling very pleased. Just the christmas madness to contend with now. :) Monday morning we arrived in Dartmouth to the sight of this enormous yacht in the harbour. I don't know who it belongs to but with a quick google I found it's called the Lady Lara and is worth £150,000,000, crikey! What we did do was to take the car ferry over the river Dart and Peri took some pics on the way... Our exhibition is at the Flavel Art Centre, not far from where these pics were taken. We set to work with the hanging straight away hoping to get some time at the end of the day to look around the galleries in Dartmouth.  After a very long and exhausting day, time beat us to it so no gallery visits for us this time but it was a lovely day that we both enjoyed so it was well worth the effort. Peri and her beautiful paintings. Peri's paintings And mine. ...

It might not surprise you when I say that one of my favourite places to be is by the seaside! I mentioned in a previous post that I'm planning an exhibition with my friend Peri . What better place to have our exhibition than in the beautiful town of Dartmouth?! Here's the view looking down towards the castle. I took this the other day on a walk through Kingswear. We're showing our paintings at the Flavel Arts Centre which is very close to Dartmouth harbour. We're busy getting things ready, finishing paintings, making lists and sorting out cards to sell alongside the paintings. I've finished packaging them all up and I was going to take all the cards for the exhibition but then I thought it would be a nice idea to have some in my Etsy shop to so that everyone can have a chance of buying them. So here they are: This is the one of the christmas packs, each with 3 different designs. Please click here to see more detai...

Hi there, lots have been happening in the world of Jessie Lilac this week. It's funny how there's a lull and then things happen all at once isn't it? First of all I want to tell you about a gallery near Bristol called Tinca Gallery that contacted me about my paintings. I went to visit them and it was the sort of gallery I love, the rooms were interesting shapes and very light and spacious, the work displayed was gorgeous and I was very thrilled when the lovely owners asked to have my paintings there! It's been a few months since I've been in an exhibition so some of the paintings that they liked were still on Etsy. I've taken them off there now and I've decided that my Etsy shop will be for my smaller works and my watercolours from now on. :) My other piece of exciting news is that I've been featured on the blog of Judy Darley, a local writer. She's written a lovely article about my work and I'm so happy that I was asked. Please ...

If you are like me and you love colour, then you'll understand how excited I was to visit the Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the American Museum in Bath! It was a dull grey rainy day but look what greeting us on arrival!  multi-coloured yarn bombing! Outside the exhibition hall, the tree swayed in the wind with its fruit of rainbow pompoms and lightshades!  Never mind the wind and the rain, look what's up ahead!  I was so excited when I stepped inside, I didn't know what to look at first and when I heard that photography was allowed, that did it! So what to show you first? Well this red shelf display was the first thing you see as you walk through the entrance and I found it so overwhelming I couldn't look at it for very long, so I decided to find a calmer place in the exhibition. (I'll come back and show you this properly later when I've calmed down a bit.)  So into the green room, or cabbage room. There we...