Garden mornings coming soon and latest floral paintings

Flowers make people happy

Hello my flower loving friends,

It feels like summer is properly here but dare I say it I was dreaming of autumn the other day 😂 mainly because I was planning activities for my new flower mornings at the cottage. These aren’t quite workshops as such- more of a relaxed coming together in the new cutting garden to get creative. I’ve written much more about this on my website so I’ll pop a link in for that. But first let me share with you my latest small collection of floral watercolours inspired by cottage garden flowers.

There’s only five available and I’ll add the link to paintings too.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend x

Ooops now live

Sorry, slight hitch. Shop now live

Latest floral watercolours and garden progress.

Plus shop update

Hello my flower loving friends, how are you? I have the summer cold, I laugh at that as what summer I do not know. That said, dare I admit to rather enjoying the coolness so far… Things that haven’t been eaten by slugs are looking lovely for not being scorched, my hydrangea Annabelle hedge is looking marvellous with flowers the size of my head and it’s been a relief doing all the heavy garden work in the cool. The greenhouse is up and glazed, the beds are made, things are planted in them and I’ll be able to offer creative days in this part of the garden very soon! But first, let me share with you my new collection of watercolours that go live on my shop tonight at 7pm prompt.

Also I have a few of my ceramics available too including my new black anemone plate

Everything I create is inspired by my career as a florist/gardener and being present in my new garden, developing new spaces and growing a mixture of flowers and vegetables.

This is the work so far on my new area where I plan to host creative days where you can come- pick flowers and make something lovely or paint and create ceramics all whilst enjoying the garden over tea and seasonal cakes. More on that to follow! I’ll pop my shop link below so you can view my whole collection, it will be available from 7pm today. Thank you so much for reading my newsletters. If you have a friend whom you think may enjoy them then please do share.

Emma x

Delicate Floral Watercolours

New work and garden update

Hello my flower loving friends, how are you?

I’ve been on my hols and it’s been lovely but I always love coming back home to my garden (and bed). When I arrived back the foxgloves had just about gone over - they were splendid this year and there was a lot of dead heading of the roses to be done. The verbena has shot up and has in a way replaced the drama from the foxgloves so it’s still looking lovely! Inspired by my garden and after a last sell out collection I have painted another series of small floral watercolours, I’ll share more pics in a moment and put a link to the shop bellow so you can take a peak.

On other news- the greenhouse is finally glazed huuurrrahhhh and now I’m just trying to figure out how to lay the floor, I have a load of reclaimed bricks that have been sitting in the garden for ages so I’m going to use them. My raised beds are now full and are a mix of veg and flowers that I’m going to be using for floral days later in the year. I don’t really want to call them workshops as it’s more a coming together in the garden to do something lovely and eat delicious seasonal cake, more on that later.

I’ve been a watercolour artist for nearly 30 years and I’ve recently started painting small after painting larger oils for quite some time. I think the new garden has really inspired these. Would you like to come and paint with me in the garden? Let me know. These originals are now in my art shop along with my ceramics and fabrics.

More garden updates to follow as the main garden design takes shape.