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Wonderful to finally install this work over here in Richmond, UK that I first spotted @untitledartfairs in Miami last Dec. @peterdstephens work is all about light and line and I loved seeing the sun out in support today - doing it’s own thing with those too! Thanks to @rivalryprojects for a smooth process and nice working relationship.

I’m so grateful to my clients when they take the time to write me a review. And so thanks to the lovely (and incredibly talented) @mrjonhopkins for this one. I find the places my job takes me and the people I meet unendingly fascinating and a complete privilege. I try and return the favour to suppliers who do an amazing job for me and today I would like to do a shout out to the team at Robinsons Accountants in London. This weekend one of their team spent some of their Sunday making sure my VAT return was filed on time. They are an amazing team and do tax and accounts for people big and small. They didn’t laugh at me when I came to them with a small business and didn’t know a thing and they have sweetly supported me on the journey of becoming a slightly bigger one. And if you would like some ideas for your home 10 ideas for a space or a 2 hour consultation costs £175 plus VAT.

I am so so so soooooooooooooooooo grateful to the wonderful Sam @samleach_00 for repairing one of the works of this pair. Now I love my cleaner, I really do, after all, she knows more about me than anyone else in my entire life 😂 (and she STILL works for me !🤣). BUT, I did not quite love her as much on the day that I spotted a big scratchy smear right across the face of one of these resin coated paintings. In fact I felt absolutely gutted. A how to look after your artwork blog is in the brewing. Tip number one though is to tell all cleaners to step away. These may be shiny surfaces but they are not for getting the jif (nowadays cif!) out on! Anyway this has given me the chance to reconnect with Sam after many years which has been lovely. I bought these works in 2010. Sam’s current series explores AI and although these works look like they do too they were actually a precursor and are based on a book by physicist Julian Barbour called the ‘end of time’ and a whole theory of the universe that he developed (Julian not Sam) by himself in a mountain cabin. His diagrams he described as the mists of Platonia and now I am wondering if it was indeed the universe that projected their strange misty lights onto the works last night! 😂. I love these works. They have lived with me a long time and they are some of my favourite works in my collection. So wonderful to have them back together. Thanks Sam. 🤎 Thanks also to lovely child number 2 who rather sportingly took this in her back pack to Sam in Melbourne for me under extremely strict instructions. 😂😘

Paintings can be magnificent, majestic things that change and respond to the seasons. That seemingly change and respond to how you feel. This is two photos of same painting taken within 5 mins of each other - just with the lights on and off. Can you imagine what this work looks light on a summers evening when the sun sets against that wall. In the cold light of a winters morning when you pad down stairs and sit with a cup of tea and sit and stare into this work while you gather your thoughts for the day. When you are alone? With a party going on? This painting at its best. Lucky, lucky clients. These lovely clients asked me to source works for their home. 10 ideas for a space cost £175 plus VAT.

London Original Print Fair is one of my favourite art fairs of the year. Print people are really nice people. Slightly different from the fine art people. Bit geekier and slightly more earthy. I often wonder if it’s the ink. Anyway, I digress. It’s a lovely fair this year with some very good talks. And I found the work of @linchauartist @glasgowprintstudio and fell in love with this beauty. I know it’s of the ocean because that what it’s called but for me its feels like spring air. Warm and swirly and plump and delicious and very very pretty. Check out her other works with them - there are some gems. If you would like a guided tour of an art fair it costs £175 plus VAT. I can help you spot things you might overlook on first sight and point you in the direction of some good things.

So delighted to see these super cool prints by Tim Mara up in another beautiful @shaadee_asekour_interiors client project that she kindly invited me to work on. I first learned about Tim Mara’s work through the fab ceramics by his daughter @alicemara. Tim was Professor of Print Making at the @royalcollegeofart. I never met him but he is often referenced by peers and artists as having had a huge impact on them and being an enormously influential figure. I think these prints (from the 80’s) oddly have a kind of quirky timelessness - they feel absolutely of this time and I love that 45 years later. A very cool thing. Thanks to Shaadee not only for the scheme but also for trying to climb in the coat cupboard to get the straight on shot (which sadly still wasn’t doable - so it’s just the lucky clients who get to see them in their glory hanging nice and straight next to each other!)

This morning (this beautiful morning nonetheless), I am sandwiched in the clear space between “International Women’s Day” and “Mother’s Day”. And what a sandwich it is. Crushed by the expectation of yesterday to be Powerful, Thrusting, Successful and Inspirational to other women (and get a magazine feature!) and squashed by the guilt that tomorrow dollops out (perhaps the mayo in my sandwich) of the numerous ways I’ve Come Up Short and Failed As A Mother to my three kids - I could be left in a kind of ‘I’m a failure limbo’. But I’m not. Miraculously. And this work reminds me why. A very wise woman once told me I couldn’t possibly have it all. That I had to pick no more than 2 of three things: marriage, kids, career. That I could not expect to succeed at any more than two from three. Now I’m 20 years older than that advice, I’d be inclined to revise that figure down to one or even a half or a half of a half. I think life has expanded since her sage advice of early 2000’s. It leaves less space to do anything particularly well and certainly (if any of the conversations I’ve had with clients and friends in the last days are anything to go by) without slathers and slathers of Crippling Guilt of Doing Nothing Well. So I love this work for its message - it’s essentially - if we are halfway good at one thing then that is good enough. Thats enough. Maybe thats more than enough. This idea that we have to be all things to all people is just a modern day dream we’ve all been sold and it’s mentally destroying perfectly good women. So here’s to the Great Mums and Shit Wives Club. And all the other Great at/Shit ats we belong to at various points. I think I’ve belonged to quite a few of them 😂. Today my club I’m focussing on is being a Great Friend Shit Housewife which will allow me to resolutely refuse to clear up chaos of a party one of the kids had last night and pop out for a coffee and hug with a pal who needs one. Sod International Bloody Woman’s Day. Today is Just Do What You Can Day.

Question: How many people does it take to get one painting that is too big to go up the stairs, up the actual stairs, framed and on the wall?

Wonderful to pop back today to this lovely client’s home and get the feedback that “That painting is perfection in here”. This space is largest basement I’ve ever placed work in and the painting we chose needed to have enough about it to make the space feel intimate, but also needed enough power to hold the room (the majority of which is behind the camera) A fine balance to achieve. I wasn’t surprised that it was done by a @justinmortimerartist work. One of the best there is. If you would like 10 ideas for your space it costs £175 plus VAT.

Wow. Sers. A HUGE thanks again to all my wonderful clients who fill in the little link and write me a review!!!It really means a lot to me has enabled me to win the coveted @houzzuk “Best of Houzz Service” award for the FOURTH year in a row. A very happy day indeed. 🙏😘🙏😘🙏😘 If you would like me to help you with how your art is hung in your home or office, a two hour consultation costs £175 plus VAT. Likewise do 10 art ideas for a space or a two hour tour around an art fair.

Two different days, two different lights. Paintings are enigmatic things and @carolrobertson.artist paintings are some of the most deliciously so of them all. I often fall in love with a particular painting of an artist and did so with this one of Carol’s ‘Rose Circle’. I would have bought it myself only the only wall big enough meant I could not get it up the stairs! It was the universe though. This painting was meant for here really. Circles echoing circles and space creating space. This painting pulses and throbs and beats and breathes and occupies this space as if it was made for the room. Sit and look and get lost in a rose garden. I swear you can smell the roses if you sit quietly enough. Lucky clients and thanks to @adearchitecture and @colour_interiors_ltd for the space and the scheme 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. A joyously satisfying moment to have found this painting the home it deserves.

So it’s a wrap. We’ve had a wonderful few days in Rotterdam for Rotterdam Art Week. From the very first moment to the very last it’s been an absolute joy. We’ve met some wonderful people, some super new galleries, discovered some fabulous new artists and made several new friends. A huge thanks to the kindness and welcome from all. Here is a little example of the kind of week we’ve had. It’s makes me laugh just looking at the photos. Artists are amazing people, I don’t think I will ever fail to be inspired by you all. You are interesting, you are brave and you nourish my soul spiritually and not to mention often make me screech with laughter. Thank you 🙏

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