Cheryl’s Blog
Inspiring Travels
A different but totally inspiring experience that I am still soaking up. For a painter who loves her colour, this was the box of chocolates with the cherry on...
Autumn 2022 “Let there be Light” Launch date….
Let there be light! I think that's needed right now. Theres been such a fantastic response to my lampshade this year that they will be available to buy online...
Silent Auction for Ukraine
2022, another year as part of Stroud Open Studios. A year where families were split up and displaced from their homes and communities in Ukraine. I decided to...
Spring 2021
Looking back at past work often causes a new response; looking at this image I am imbued with the feeling of hope of Spring; a peaceful, restful figure...
Winter 2020
It’s that time of year. A time to assess the year’s work and make plans for the coming one. Thanks for your many kind words through my instagram site...
Autumn 2020
Working on a three quarter life oil painting for a client. From a selection of charcoal and pastel studio studies with my model Callie, this final composition...
Summer 2020
Working together on a concept that has been evolving for the past year. Collaboration with Marie Louise Flexen has always been so intuitive and rewarding....
The Small Of It
‘Butterfly Head’ is the first panel painting in a new Series ‘The Small of IT’. Staying at home for chunks of 2020 refocussed me to revel in the beauty of the...
Being a painter
Being a painter for me is about constantly exploring, responding to the present and the past, and expanding my practise. It seems that at present I have 3...
Look damn you…look!
A painter’s plea observe take in explore interpret... the paint, the marks, the interaction of colour next to another, the boldness of a shape, the weakness...
My current practise around Portraiture
Playing around and evolving the bigger meaning of Portrait is an ongoing journey in my work, and I was totally stimulated by the Howard Hodgkin exhibition...
Portraits: Mercy
She is a beautiful woman whose calmness I was keen to capture. As the sittings unfolded, there were three two-hour portrait sittings, I wanted to wrap a...
A response to Drop of a Hat production of Harold Pinter’s Dumb Waiter.
I felt drawn to respond to this production: an intense, predictable and absurd play done proud by this company in its infancy. The scene of two murderers...
A collaboration with Marie Louise Flexen
Myself and dance artist Marie Louise Flexen have collaborated on many pieces exploring movement this year, with a recent performance as part of the Stroud...
International Dance Day Message
International Dance Day Message 2017 by Trisha Brown: "I became a dancer because of my desire to fly. The transcendence of gravity was always something that...
