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Friday 30 July 2021

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A synopsis update from October 2019 to date 30 July 2021.

Over a year of COVID-19 (worldwide) with lockdown, isolation, social distancing and MASKS!; many people struggling in one way or another over the time! 

We are now coming out of it - slowly!

We have missed our family Cornwall 2019 and 2020. First in 55 years!

From this came my fifth book  'A baby comes to Cornwall' 

I wrote it to connect the family together, sending them a page a day, with my daughter adding photos. Thank heavens for WhatsApp groups with 26 of us....!


 

The little book is a log of each day we spend together each Easter week.

What we do and our love for each other! 



Copies are for sale
sarahorchard1@icloud.com

I started walking on the Purlieu nearly every day and recording the flora and fauna plus the weather, in an A6 landscape moleskin book. For me they are the best....

My platinum pen went with me and when home I added my watercolours.


I am still logging and love the fact that I have seen the seasons pass. Looking forward to seeing the variation next year!




I have made two fabulous new friends. I walk with one on Mondays and the other on Fridays.
I feel very honoured to have them in my life. We have shared sadness and pain and laughter.

Christmases and birthdays have passed with distant contact from family and friends. 
My beautiful son had his 30th birthday ... 


We had a quiet Christmas ,home alone. My lovely Dads had been transferred to a care home as the Alzheimers took hold! So demoralising for such a beautiful man, as with so many others. You wouldn't allow your dog to live like that! So cruel....


(Close up)



I made this board game (above) for my son as my secret Santa'
It depicts the route of one of our family Cornish walks. 
I think nicely appreciated.


Valentine 2021 came and went, isolated in our properties....
My boy and I have been together for forty-one years and I feel closer to him now more than ever. We had fabulous times together in lockdown although he was also working 'saving the world...'


 
My lovely Dads died on 15th February 2021. It was relatively peaceful, with seven of us around his bed. No masks, no social distancing. A happy time as we laughed, cried  and exchanged memories of him.  
He was out of that humiliating time in his wonderful life. Adored by everyone he met!


I painted and framed eleven of these watercolour and charcoal sketches below, for all of my family to put in their homes and feel Dads with them. 





I spent five days in hospital from 19th February - our thirty-eighth wedding anniversary 
- with a perforated bowel.


We then both had a week, for a well needed holiday, in Bude Cornwall the first week in May, to make up for missing our Easter Cornwall again and just life really!



As you can read, I needed to see the sea... it was very emotional and a fabulous week together.


I spend a lot of my time playing with pen and wash but different pen 
👏



My lovely son got married and I now have a beautiful daughter in law!


The wedding was SO full of love. They both did a magic job organising it!





We have revamped our garden and now have most of the lawn as 'meadow' to be more environmentally friendly!

Above is my wildflower log. 

Each month I am recording the wildflowers that appear, with 

flowering time; habitat; folklore or history 

I absolutely love doing things like this!

Its just for me but hey!






And finally for now, we have Hampshire Open Studio at Coach House Studio

Woodgreen New Forest

Do visit!

21st August to 30th August 2021









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Art has always been an integral part of my life. At the age of 50 I was able to complete a long awaited foundation course and HNC/HND. From this experience I have developed my love of pastel and watercolour. Rubens has always inspired me with his fluidity of movement; Degas and Lautrec I admire with their rough marks and blends of colour,their freshness of approach. I feel I have been given a talent for a reason and gradually the purpose shall unfold... sarah.orchard54@hotmail.co.uk Note: Images are Copyright Sarah Orchard © 2009