A New Way of Publishing

Time has flown ridiculously fast since my last post here. I have not been idle.

My solo exhibition in Montrose continues to reverberate, generating online sales, offline sales, general feedback and interest. I have put the two part film onto YouTube so that you can have a guided tour of it any time you like. Here it is! 

'Fields of Them' - just one of 43 paintings on show in the two part film

As an extra treat there's a taste of the seaside on there too.
And in between various visitors staying with us for holidays I've been revisiting some of the books I've published in the past, with a view to preparing them for publication on Kindle. The first of these is now complete and published to Kindle here!

That's the UK version.
Here is the US version
There are 15 Hamersma artwork images in the Kindle book and Hamersma's writings are thought-provoking and inspirational - even for me after working on this book for such a long time. 

Major Solo Exhibition Up and Running

I'm pleased to say that with a lot of hard work and with help from a friend and my dearest husband, Bern Ross: Inspired By Scotland is now on show in Montrose Library for the whole month of May 2013. I'm very happy with the way the paintings go together - complementing each other quite well - and I was ruthless in hanging: bringing home again more than 20 pieces because I didn't want it to look too busy and ragged. (The labels are neater now than appear on this photo.)

Here's a small taste of the 40+ exhibits, but do try and get to see the whole exhibition if you can. It will be worth it.

The main Seascape wall.
Elsewhere there are Life Studies, Landscapes and abstracts as well as more seascapes.

Coming Soon...

My silence on this blog is partly caused by thinking and working towards my (now) solo exhibition to be held throughout May 2013... Here's the poster:

It was originally going to be a joint effort called We 2 with Ros Callander but she had to drop out for various reasons so I'm going it alone. So far I'm pleased with the way my plans are falling together... and just hope that I can cope with transporting, hanging and generally putting on a classy, cohesive display to be proud of. (Actually I'm very excited.) I've offers of help from friends and warm wishes from all directions. It'll be grand to see my paintings in that huge light space, allowing visitors galore to wander in, admire and buy. I promise a treat for all who mount those stairs.

Bervie Art Show

I've been silent on here for far too long but that only means one thing. I've been VERY busy - with both painting and with THINKING! And getting organised because after much ado, much planning and hoping and bureaucratic hurdling, I have a major solo exhibition to set up for the whole of May 2013.

It was going to be a DUO with the inimitable Ros Callander, brilliant artist, great friend and proprietor of the best online gallery this country has produced but she has other important things on her mind at the moment and had to drop out of the plan.

So look out for Bern Ross: Inspired by Scotland - coming to Montrose Library Exhibition Room in May. More on that soon.

Here is my small exhibition stand at the annual BERVIE ART SHOW (Inverbervie) which I set up yesterday and which is open daily for a week, until 8th April.  This year I decided to put in a selection of line drawings.

New Textures

I've been very busy making finishing touches to several paintings that were frustrating me over the past few weeks and now I'm in a rush to get some new ideas started, so I'm not stopping to add photos of them all here. You can see finished work, as ever, on www.bernieross.co.uk which is the shortcut url to my gallery on www.AffordableBritishArt.co.uk

But here's the texture I've started today and rather like it.

Close up of texture

There's a feint outline on the canvas now - just for proportions - got a long way to go yet!
          Thanks for looking x