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

Duke Street, Dartmouth, near to where my exhibition is. I love this time of year with both Christmas and my birthday coming up. The days since my exhibition have been spent decorating the house ready for the big day. I've got all my children coming this year so I'm particularly excited about it! I'll upload some pics in my next post. :) We had a visit to Coleton Fishacre yesterday evening to see the christmas-bedecked house and garden. When I arrived, I realised that I'd forgotten to put the memory card back in my camera so I had to take the photos with my phone, hence the fuzziness but here are the pics anyway! These little snowy creatures were all in a line along the fireplace of the library. Modern snowmen don't seem to be pipe smokers any more do they?! I love how they all wear hats and carry a cane or an umbrella too. A cane, a pipe and a hat, all essential items in the olden days! The house and garden lo...

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...