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Hope you’re having a great weekend!

Today, I wanted to mention to you my “how to” video from last month, on painting with stationery and household suppliers:

I want art to be accessible for everyone to have a go at and the cost of art materials can be a barrier to some, so I thought I’d see how far I could get just using watercolour paper, and no other artist’s materials.

The paintings of the greylag geese are available printed on all sorts of lovely things at:

and:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#geese #greylag geese #goose #greylag goose #water fowl #painting with coffee #painting with fountain pen ink #Youtube

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Who else here finds looking at the sea and sailing boats pleasantly calming…?

I certainly do and last month I found finishing this painting of seabird half rater sail boats being raced at Trearddur Bay, off Ynys Môn (Anglesey) in North Wales gave me some much-needed tranquillity!

You may have noticed I’m not posting as much and taking longer to reply to comments at the moment. It’s because caring for a recently bereaved older relative is taking up extra time when we least expect. But Steve and I are doing our best, that is helping her and that’s the important thing. Most other things can wait.

When you buy from me, you’re buying from a sole-trader artist, an individual, rather than a big corporation. I’m very grateful for each purchase. And family comes first.

My A4 (29.7cm x 21cm) unframed original watercolour piece is available for £75 including UK postage. Please just message me to arrange your purchase. I check messages daily, so I will see and respond to yours.

It's also available in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc) at:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#sailing #sailboat #sailing boats #sailing life #sailing boat #dinghy sailing #anglesey #ynys môn #trearddur bay #trearddur

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And now for something completely different!

Last month I set aside my watercolours and pens and took time to explore the qualities of liquid acrylic paint on canvas …inspired by my love of the sea and the sailing I grew up around.

The blues and whites represent the surging sea water and its waves. The yellow, orange and red represent safety equipment, like the buoyancy aid lifebelts and lifejackets.

The heart these colours form in one painting represents the love shown by my parents in ensuring I always had the right safety kit and stayed safe on the water. The anchor in the other piece represents the hopeful attitude I'm so very lucky to have guiding me through life, given me by that protective parental love.

I do believe that remembering positive emotions from the past has so much to give us for the here and now... but I don't often represent them so directly or in such an abstract form...

The two original canvases are 30cm (12 inch) square, 1.5cm (1/2 inch) deep and are available unframed but ready to hang for £75 each, including UK postage. Please just message me to arrange your purchase.

They are also available in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc) at:

Heart of Love Paint Pour:

and

Anchor of Hope Paint Pour:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#heart #anchor #heart of love #anchor of hope #sailing #acrylic paint pour #stay safe on the sea #stay safe on the water

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Last Saturday, Steve and I had a lovely time taking his mother to Castle Park Arts Centre in Frodsham. We had a light lunch and took the time to see all the exhibitions. There’s a lift there, so Steve’s mum could see everything!

While there, I received the loveliest compliment for my painting “Two Seabirds at Trearddur Bay”, which is on show in the Foyé/Café area at the entrance of the arts centre!

An older gentleman, who’d been a leisure sailor in earlier years, commented to me how much he liked the piece, because of how I’d shown the light on the sails of the two boats.

He went onto say how in the past he’d been disappointed seeing paintings created by artists who hadn’t the knowledge to know that the sail configurations they’d painted weren’t possible. They’d painted sailboats in ways that just didn’t make sense to a sailor.

I was so pleased I’d got my sailboats right in his opinion! I sometimes crewed for my dad in his seabird and I take lots of photos to study exactly how boats look when sailed, and I think that helps.

My watercolour painting “Two Seabirds at Trearddur Bay” even includes paint made from ground up Lapis Lazuli, and the original A4 piece is on show and available to purchase for £95, in an A3 frame and mount, from Castle Park Arts Centre, until 11th May.

It’s also available to buy in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc), at:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#sailing #sails #sailboat #sailing boats #sailing boat #sailing life #boats #sail boat

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Just to let you know, next Thursday 11th April between 1pm and 3pm, I'll be putting on a drop in session for making fun costume jewellery earrings from recycled single-use plastics. It's in Gallery 1 (downstairs, just next to the Café) in Castle Park Arts Centre, off Fountain Lane, Castle Park, Frodsham, Cheshire, WA6 6SE! The idea is that you can pop in for a few minutes, see how I make the earrings using single use plastics, make your own to take away if you like (with a suggested donation of £1 for the earring wires and other bits I'll provide that aren't recycled), just staying as long or as short a time as you like - between 1 and 3pm. I'm putting the session on to coincide with my and Louise Barson's exhibition of art in the Centre's Foye/Café, so if you come along, I'd love to hear which piece of art you like best! Simples...? Yes...? If you can't make the session, but you'd still like to make the earrings, please head over to:

to see how I make them! Thanks! Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#recycled jewellery #recycle plastic #recycled earrings #recycling #recycle #fun earrings #fun costume jewellery #fun costume jewelry #frodsham #cheshire #what's on cheshire #Youtube

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Hope you're having a great Easter bank holiday weekend! 🐣🐥🐤🐇🐰 I've had a busy time preparing for an exhibition at Castle Park Arts Centre but I've also published my March newsletter this weekend, and if it's not in your email inbox, it's available at:

If you'd like to receive it each month, there's the opportunity to subscribe at:

And each month one new subscriber is offered a little giveaway! 🎁 Thanks! Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#monthly newsletter #newsletter sign up #free newsletter #newsletter #sailing #sailboat #goose #greylag goose #heart and anchor #love and hope

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We had such a great evening yesterday, celebrating being shortlisted for the Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize! I didn't win. I didn't expect to. Ian Fisher's magnificent "Wales Dragon Map" very deservedly won. But I felt so honoured to be included in the exhibition at Oriel Môn (Rhosmeirch, Llangefni, Ynys Môn /Anglesey LL77 7TQ) - which is on till 7th July. If you can't make it there in person, all the drawings are here:

Mine's number 61 of the 77 pieces on exhibition (and sale) and shown on this website. Before the prize-giving, we popped into Popty Pizza (just next to Oriel Môn) for a quick change into gladrags and a quick but very delicious pizza. After, we headed over to Bragdy Cybi brewery in Caergybi/Holyhead, where we were made very welcome at an evening of song and comedy (in aid of Swtan, the wonderful c1900 Welsh longhouse at Traeth Swtan/Church Bay). The very best of Welsh hospitality! Diolch yn fawr iawn! Thank you very much! Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#art #drawing #drawing prize #ynys môn #anglesey #oriel mon #ynys mon

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Does anyone else love meerkats?

Here’s one of the mob at the Lake District Wildlife Park at Bassenthwaite on look-out duty!

My A5 (14.8cm by 21cm with rounded corners) unframed original pen piece titled “Meerkat on Guard” is available for £35 including UK postage, or framed for £55. Please just message me to arrange your purchase.

It's also available in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc) at:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#meerkat #meerkats #meercat #meercats #bassenthwaite #wildlife art #wildlife #wild animals #lake district

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Do you like partaking in fresh scones and tea, surrounded by art...? If you do and you're within striking distance of Frodsham in Cheshire, you're in for a treat! From Wednesday 3rd April till Saturday 11th May, Louise Barson and my art's being exhibited in the Café area/ Foye of Castle Park Arts Centre, Off Fountain Lane Castle Park, Frodsham WA6 6SE. There's plenty of parking nearby at Castle Park and the baked goods are sublime! It's open, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am till 4pm! Thanks! Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#scones #scones and tea #whats on cheshire #art exhibition #scones and art #frodsham #cheshire #cheshire art

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I’ve been missing my friends on social media while helping out with palliative care and a bereavement in the older generation of our little family. But with the funeral having taken place on Monday and the widow doing much better than I feared, I’m going to try and make a little more time for the things I love to do. I actually really love my work, painting and sharing what I do here. So despite the current sadness, I’m actually very lucky!

Anyway, I’m really delighted to show you a painting I created last month. It’s of a greylag goose on the Derwentwater foreshore.

I’m not selling the original, as I used a variety of kitchen supplies and some writing pen ink: Quink ink, turmeric, pickled walnut and red cabbage vinegar, ground coffee left-overs and ground and pure sea salt from Halen Môn in Wales. It was an exercise in seeing how far people with next to no budget for art materials can get. But I just don’t know how these ingredients will stand up over time, so I’m not going to sell anyone something that might fade!

But it is available available in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc), using commercial inks that should endure, at:

… and if you buy from them, I receive 20% of the sales price, before the shipping costs are added.

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#goose #greylag goose #greylag geese #wild geese #geese #derwentwater #lake district #keswick #cumbria #lake district cumbria

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Hi everyone - Hope you're having a great weekend! I've had to disappear from social media for a few weeks now, as we've been needed to nurse Steve's father (24-hour palliative care at home) and now to arrange his funeral and support his wife. They were married almost 68 years, so naturally my mother-in-law needs lots of our undivided attention as she tries to adjust to the loss. The funeral's more than a week away and we've not had too much chance to catch up on our sleep yet, but I did get a little bit of time to send out my February newsletter on Wednesday. It has some new art in it and details of where you can see my work "face to face" over the next few months. If you've not received it in your email inbox, here it is:

Please feel free to keep in touch by signing up at:

And thank you for your continuing patience, while I can't post much, or get to messages and comments as I'd like. Thanks again! Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#goose #greylag goose #geese #greylag geese #wild geese #florists #flower shop #ynys môn #anglesey #wales #exhibition

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Do you get the equivalent of “writer’s block”, that slump where, whatever you need a bit of creativity for, the ideas just don’t come…?

We all need a bit of creativity for something, even if it’s only deciding what to have for dinner.

But I can honestly say I’m fortunate enough to never be lost for ideas. Wherever I am, I just love looking round for beauty and taking photos of it with my phone, and that’s mainly where my ideas for my art come from – from the beauty I see around me. And I’m lucky to get to see lots of loveliness as I amble through life. If we’re out anywhere special, like a garden or animal park, I literally take hundreds of photos!

This watercolour painting of a “Pink Sensation” waterlily at Burnby Hall Gardens in Pocklington, Yorkshire happened because we stopped off to see some of Steve’s cousins on our way to a week’s holiday in Whitby last September. I didn’t take quite so many photos as usual at these gardens, because I was trying hard to be good company and not rude 🤣🤣🤣…. But I got enough good photos to be able to paint this waterlily!

My A4 (29.7cm x 21cm) unframed original is available for £75 including UK postage. Please just message me to arrange your purchase.

It's also available in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc) at:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#water lily #water garden #waterlilies #waterlily #burnby hall gardens #pocklington #water lilies #lily pads #water gardens

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Do you like waterlilies…?

My A4 (29.7cm x 21cm) unframed original watercolour of a “Pink Sensation” waterlily at Burnby Hall Gardens in Pocklington, Yorkshire is available for £75 including UK postage. Please just message me to arrange your purchase.

It's also available in a mix of different types and sizes of prints, and printed on all sorts of lovely things (like accessories, apparel, homewares, gift items, etc) at:

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#water lily #waterlily #water lilies #lily pads #water gardens #water garden #burnby hall gardens #pocklington

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Have you received my newsletter yet… ?

Being a bit of a night owl 🦉 and with January proving a little “challenging” this year 🌪, I pinged it out at eight minutes past midnight last night 🕛.

If you’ve not yet subscribed (which you’re welcome to do – it’s free, arrives by email and is just monthly), here’s a link to read last night’s newsletter online:

And it contains some details about my two monthly giveaways 🎁🎁 too!

Thanks 😃

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#newsletter #free newsletter #monthly newsletter #derwentwater #giveaway #giveaway alert #giveaway uk #water lily #waterlilies #diy earrings

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Recycled Chocolate Wrapper Earrings

Available to watch now!

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#recycling #diy projects #diy ideas #diy craft #diy earrings #diy jewelry

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Hope your week has started well!

Do you give positive reviews…?

I’ve just received a really wonderful one after painting a commission of Ynys Tysilio or Church Island at Porthaethwy, Ynys Môn / Menai Bridge, Anglesey.

My customer explained his reasons for the commission and then said:

“When the painting finally arrived all those memories seemed so much more vivid, more real. My employees were very impressed with it. Sam's skill as a painter is sensitive, gifted, and highly skilled. Some friends have asked me where I got hold of the painting, and I have recommended Sam to them. It is a lovely painting, and I cherish it. I hope many more people enjoy Sam's talent and genuine artistry.”

I can’t tell you how helpful and encouraging these kinds of recommendations are for artists such as myself!

Massive thanks again to my customer!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

P.S. The art is available on prints etc at:

#review #reviews #art review #review post #ynys môn #ynys tsyilio #ynys mon #anglesey

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Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus! Happy Saint Dwynwen Day! The 25th January is the St Dwynwen's - the Welsh St Valentines! St Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of love, a fifth century Welsh Princess who prayed that God would meet the hopes and dreams of all true lovers. She founded a convent on Ynys Llanddwyn off the west coast of Ynys Môn (Anglesey), where she remained until her death in 465AD. The island became a site of pilgrimage with visitors believing that the sacred fish or eels living in the well there could foretell the fate of their relationships. Steve and I love walking to this romantic island at low tide, and I painted this picture of this beautiful place, which sold on X (formerly Twitter) within days, to a mother buying it for her daughter's house warming gift. But prints and other items featuring this art (without the words) are still available at:

with 25% off at the moment. Is there someone you'd buy a Toblerone for bearing the words "Caru Ti" or "Love You" in Welsh...? Thanks! Diolch! Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#ynys môn #ynys llanddwyn #dydd santes dwynwen #anglesey #isle of anglesey #ynys mon #sir fon #dydd santes dwynwen hapus #cymru #cymraeg #dysgu cymraeg