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Phone box magic.

Great idea! Iconic phone box, used as a mini cafe, supports homeless people. This one is in Eastbourne by the pier.

Some days you believe you have taken on to many things and nothing is getting done. Some days you see that you are chipping away at lots of different projects and the reward will come later down the line. Some days you need to take stock and shut down those things that realistically will notContinue reading “Busy times”

I do love to be beside the seaside!

©Sophie Douglas

Finders keepers

I love collections I am fascinated by found things I love finding others that are the same. Here is a magic garden of found objects from the beach at Bexhill on Sea. ©www.sophiemayer.com

Local places

The Little Arts Festival

I am part of a small team putting together The Little Arts Festival August 19th -28th. There will be music, poetry, drama, visual arts and crafts and much more! If you are an artist and want to be involved, or just like art, put it in your diary, and support the Facebook page! Thanks Continue reading “The Little Arts Festival”

New painting

Today I started on a new painting! It is an abstract landscape, it shows the movement in asthetics from the work I was producing in London (central row right), influenced by the environment I now live in (the landscape photographs). So far I have done 2 small studies, and started drawing out the large canvas.Continue reading “New painting “

It’s a little early for spring

Top left image: The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire, 2011 (twenty eleven). The painting forms one part of a 52-part work by David Hockney RA.

New year, new project

Happy New Year one and all; and I hope this is the start of a fantastic, happy and healthy year! To start the new year I have started a new 365 day project, if you wish to follow please do! sophies365project Thank you! Sophie https://sophies365project.wordpress.com/

Another years end

Thanks for following my blog in 2015! Here are a few of my favourite recent images. Enjoy!