Category: Events
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Cumbria Local Arts exhibition 2026
Another morning in Grasmere visiting the amazing Cumbria Local Atrs exhibition. It’s hard to believe that this time last year I dreamed of one day being accepted for this – and now here I am with 3 pictures on display and another in reserve. It’s been an exciting journey of discovery, and one I’m incredibly…
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Pictures at an exhibition
I spent the day getting my pictures ready for the Cumbria Local Arts exhibition in Grasmere in 4 days’ time, including a last check over before wrapping them carefully in Bubblewrap. Waah! I’ll miss them. But hopefully they’ll go to nice homes, and if not I’ll have them back again the following week! If you…
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Coming soon – Cumbria Local Arts exhibition
One week to go until this event – and I’m in it! Last year we went as visitors and were blown away by the standard of art displayed. This year I should have four pictures of my own exhibited and for sale. I’m still glowing at the thought! Do come along to Grasmere between 3rd…
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A new exhibition
So on 1st December I took a very deep breath and applied to enter the Cumbria Local Arts exhibition for the first time ever – and heard 2 days later that I’d been accepted!! The event happens in Grasmere in April next year and you can bet I’ll be posting more details nearer the time……
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First sale!
Absolutely delighted (aka running around the house shrieking) to learn that this picture sold at the Windermere Art Society exhibition yesterday! Called ‘Ladies Who Munch’, it’s a charcoal drawing of two Herdwick sheep I photographed in a field near Keswick in the Lake District a few years ago. This is my first ever “proper” art…
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Pictures at an exhibition
The Windermere Art Society exhibition is now open and includes four of my charcoal drawings (the top four in the photo) plus loads more fantastic artworks. It’s free to get in and there’s free parking so if you’re in the area why not call in? We’d love to see you! Ladyholme Centre, Lake Road, Windermere10.00…
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Acrylic mini canvases
I had a busy afternoon helping other (much more experienced) members of Windermere Art Society set up ready for the annual exhibition, which officially starts on Monday. This is the display of mini canvases painted (mostly in acrylics) by various society members – and me! Mine is the one roughly in the middle, with green…
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My first art exhibition!
I’m so excited that my work is being featured in this year’s Windermere Art Society exhibition, alongside many other works by the Society’s very talented members. Tomorrow is setting-up/hanging day and I’ll be helping out, as well as taking five of my pictures along – four charcoal drawings and an acrylic painting on a small…
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Expensive string!
I can’t quite believe I had to pay £5 for a ball of string the size of a golf ball yesterday! For that price I’d have expected spun gold… However, it’s exactly what I needed to finish off the framing/labelling of all my pictures for the (rapidly) upcoming Windermere Art Society exhibition, which kicks off…
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Swan drawing framed
Yay! That’s the first of my pictures all finished, framed and ready to go off to the Windermere Art Society exhibition in August. This charcoal drawing is based on a photo of a rather pushy swan I “met” by the lake shore in Bowness a few years ago. It was clearly after my sandwiches, so…
fiona glass art 