As some of you may know, I work predominantly digitally these days, but this is a rare example of my using traditional media which I painted in acrylics on canvas (80cm x 50cm) recently. It was based on a photo I took some 30 years ago of my eldest daughter Amber, who turned 40 on July 10. It shows her in a field of daisies in Pensilva, Cornwall. Serendipitously, the painting now hangs on her wall in her home in Cornwall, not 5 miles from this spot.
Hello dear ‘O’ lovely to see you! What an outstanding image! I have a photograph hanging on my wall here which my father took at Cornwall when I was about 7 yrs. I’m sure your daughter treasures it as I do mine :) Beautiful image and nice to see something pre digital too :)
Thanks Tai. It’s not ‘pre digital’ though I only finished painting it recently. It took months on and off and I had a lot of dramas with it, including a total repaint, followed a total repaint of my daughter’s face, when the paint crazed on just that area, for some bizarre reason and to top it all, a major repair job after it got damaged when I took it to be scanned so I could have a decent print of it. Had to mend a 5cm tear in the canvas, fortunately within the ‘flower area’ so you can’t see it. Had it been in the sky, it would have been impossible to fix. The things we do for love….X
Oh this is really gorgeous Owen :O) It says happy memory to me, I am smiling as I type this thinking of her as a young girl enjoying such a beautiful flower landscape xx
Thanks Karen, As I wrote on the back of the canvas ‘The calendar may say you are 40, but in my heart you will always be ’My Little Girl Amongst The Daisies’. I watched her open in on her Birthday, thanks to Skype. Fortunately, she loves it. XX
Hello Owen, always great to see you again. Beautiful painting! Happy birthday to Amber :)
Hi Hillie and thanks. Apparently, Amber had a great Birthday, but sadly we couldn’t make it to the UK for it. ‘Tyranny of Distance’ and all that. You can also add ‘Tyranny of Bank Balance’…X
Yep it’s a lonnnng way, O. My daughter is in Ireland on a year’s working holiday. I should know. Miss her like heck.
Haven’t seen either of my girls or my Grandkids for about 4 years. Haven’t been back to the UK for around 12. Skype is a lifesaver, as are smartphones. Don’t know if I could endure it without. Sad part is, they are unlikely to move down here to live and there’s no way I could live back there. So sadly, this is how it will stay. Even a holiday visit is out because it costs so much, even for two adults and none of us have the kind of money it takes to do that on a regular basis, especially me. X
I know how you feel Owen. I have a little grandson down in Blue Mts. We travelled down end of last year and they will want to see us again soon. I don’t fly these days (haven’t in years and have no idea how I’ll manage if I did) and we have driven down a few times but I’m over it. The place has too many bad memories too (we were in a cult in the Blue Mts ‘70s & ’80s) so it’s not a happy thing for us to go there. Hopefully they’ll come up. They’re young and we used to do that with our kids visiting their grandparents.
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Hello dear ‘O’ lovely to see you! What an outstanding image! I have a photograph hanging on my wall here which my father took at Cornwall when I was about 7 yrs. I’m sure your daughter treasures it as I do mine :) Beautiful image and nice to see something pre digital too :)
Thanks Tai. It’s not ‘pre digital’ though I only finished painting it recently. It took months on and off and I had a lot of dramas with it, including a total repaint, followed a total repaint of my daughter’s face, when the paint crazed on just that area, for some bizarre reason and to top it all, a major repair job after it got damaged when I took it to be scanned so I could have a decent print of it. Had to mend a 5cm tear in the canvas, fortunately within the ‘flower area’ so you can’t see it. Had it been in the sky, it would have been impossible to fix. The things we do for love….X
– DilettantO
Oh this is really gorgeous Owen :O)
It says happy memory to me, I am smiling as I type this thinking of her as a young girl enjoying such a beautiful flower landscape xx
Thanks Karen, As I wrote on the back of the canvas ‘The calendar may say you are 40, but in my heart you will always be ’My Little Girl Amongst The Daisies’.
I watched her open in on her Birthday, thanks to Skype. Fortunately, she loves it. XX
– DilettantO
Hello Owen, always great to see you again. Beautiful painting! Happy birthday to Amber :)
Hi Hillie and thanks. Apparently, Amber had a great Birthday, but sadly we couldn’t make it to the UK for it. ‘Tyranny of Distance’ and all that. You can also add ‘Tyranny of Bank Balance’…X
– DilettantO
Yep it’s a lonnnng way, O. My daughter is in Ireland on a year’s working holiday. I should know. Miss her like heck.
Haven’t seen either of my girls or my Grandkids for about 4 years. Haven’t been back to the UK for around 12. Skype is a lifesaver, as are smartphones. Don’t know if I could endure it without. Sad part is, they are unlikely to move down here to live and there’s no way I could live back there. So sadly, this is how it will stay. Even a holiday visit is out because it costs so much, even for two adults and none of us have the kind of money it takes to do that on a regular basis, especially me. X
– DilettantO
I know how you feel Owen. I have a little grandson down in Blue Mts. We travelled down end of last year and they will want to see us again soon. I don’t fly these days (haven’t in years and have no idea how I’ll manage if I did) and we have driven down a few times but I’m over it. The place has too many bad memories too (we were in a cult in the Blue Mts ‘70s & ’80s) so it’s not a happy thing for us to go there. Hopefully they’ll come up. They’re young and we used to do that with our kids visiting their grandparents.
Really gorgeous, shows a father’s love♥