Hmm, it has been a long time since I posted. Well, my excuse is that just as my broken ankle and damaged tendon was healing, and my walking improving, I broke my wrist and vertebrae in another accident,  at the gym, and was out of action again for  a few months.  Certainly  I was not motivated to post yet more sketches of limbs in plaster casts; after all this site  was meant, in part, to be about my progress as an artist! Despite that some good things have happened over the

As I did not go on the sketch crawl I tried out a watercolour sketch  of  a snowy, neighbour’s garden, as seen from my kitchen window. I am trying out using water colours straight, without  any pencil or pen drawing first. Perhaps it is a bit “chocolate- boxy”,  but  there it is. #art #contemporary #sketchers #illustration #diane #images #visualart

I finally made it to my new studio  last week  and set up for the first time.  It is small but perfectly formed for my needs. The light is very good and I have it all to myself – I shared my last studio. This  picture of  the empty room shows it  the way I will never see it again, until I have to leave it that is. It is very cold in the building as the weather now is very cold and it has snowed this week. I had  intended  to join  a Sketch Crawl at the Tate Modern this Saturd

I have had a particular relationship with this footware  over the last 3 months. The walking shoe is the only shoe that I  can get my still swollen foot into and I am so…  bored with it. The boots are  the main culprits, I was wearing the pair when I broke my ankle. #art #contemporary #sketchers #illustration #arts #diane #gerrard #images #visualart

These images are of two paintings I left on the train this year (forgot I had  them with me !) and I never found them. #arts #contemporary #illustration #images