Goodbye Favourite Picture ! Thanks to Peterborough Artists' Open Studio.

Mary Kemp - Before the Growing Season

It's weird really that I feel a little sadness at saying gooodbye to one of the paintings I feel quite proud of.

I felt I'd done a good job with this picture, composition, colour, execution, all that sort of thing.

During my open studio event a lady came and said she'd bought a postcard of it two years ago and wished she'd bought the original. I had to scrabble around in my store, aka spare bedroom, to find it ! But to cut a long story short she now owns it and it is destined for a more varied life on an office wall instead of in my spare bedroom.