235 entry

A year has flown by as it is now July 2026

my contact details are below + website and Artlook connections.

- email: sarahorchard1@icloud.com

- website:https://www.sarahorchardart.com/

- https://www.artlook.org.uk/

I shall put these paintings randomly, as to be honest I am confused as to where I am in my time line! 😂

By the looks of things I spend most of my time either doing cards or playing! 

😩

Here we go.

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2026

I am trying to find a substitute for charcoals as it isn't waterproof. I am using a stick with a pot containing muslin squares and ink to dip my stick into and I LOVE the rough effect it has, so most of my work below is this technique with loose watercolours .

For the Sir Harold Hilliers exhibition

A memory:
My lovely cuz and husband in Spain.

I love those boys. 

I like this but others do not. 

It is the simplicity of marks that shows a story for me.

In bed reading.

This is great and I forgot that I had it.  

I'm looking for this idea in the back, back of my head but stuck there - need to practice more!
Not like ti above though!

Lovely Karen Welsh's classes.

I try to go once a month to use my acrylics and try being 'free'😂😂

A painting commission

for triathlon fiends

To Hilliers to meet my lovely Wellow art group 

- a once a month occasion.

A rose by another name!

love it. took me minutes!

Catching butterflies

My beautiful boy out running.

Cards I sent to family and friends from Lower Tresmorn.

Just playing; I love it!

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2025

LT 2025

Painting commission

lovely Andrew and my boy.

Not sure on this one. Too many colours.

dark! not fresh...

We hold hands - my boy and I.

 

As it says in 'Sleepless in Seattle'

'it's like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known..!'

He says he was simply taking her hand to help her out of a car when he instantly knew it was magic.

A trial of a rose.

A sad card!

A watercolour sketch

I quite like the movement.

Bit 'brown' though.

The New Forest - or part of...

Christmas card - bit rubbish.

Playing

not good

Playing

Also not good

Jake Winkle offered the subject

Sergeac 2025

Lovely Sarah Waters is our tutor. 

We have SUCH a ball

This is the watercolour sketch of the view from our gîte

Turning it into a felt painting

End felt. 

Happy girl!

My beautiful girl loves LOTR so a birthday card for her.

A view while sitting in the prickly grasses 

by the side of the coastal path  - Cornwall.

Commission.

Angelika's beautiful ponies.

The lady in question 😍

Cornwall view sitting by the sea,

This is my favourite view from the cabin on our summer holidays.

I do love this painting; done in acrylics on board from the window.

We watch the walkers and ravens along the coastal path.

 234 entry

Wow, I looked at this diary today and two years have passed. Where did that time go?

So it's now 8th June 2025 🤪 and a sunny Sunday morning.

 2024 

A year full of visits to France; Spain; Cornwall x 2 ...

Exhibitions 

 https://www.artlook.org.uk/

Hilliers; 

Hampshire Open studio;

Salisbury Hospital

It's the year of the Bee. 

If they all became extinct then so would we, 

we rely on them for pollination so be kind to them...

My year of 'Naive Art.'

This is Matilda and I LOVE her 

Under is Albert and I LOVE him too but not as much as Matilda

Below, shouting at you, is Sid

and below him is his mate Charlie.

These characters that I have created are like in Beatrix Potter books. She relates to her illustrations - Peter Rabbit especially - as family! 

I spent time down at Woodgreen Hampshire Open Studio and using stick, ink and watercolours these guys emerged. I think they are great.

I added a flower one as well. 

I tend to draw people as I like the movement

The style developed into this...

onwards 

My 10th book was published. 

👏👏👏

Bottinest Bumblebees 

£8 +P&P

A rhyming book about two bee friend collecting pollen from the  New Forest.

Go to my website - now if you wish for more information and my email address

(new website) 

 

https://www.sarahorchardart.com/

As to holidays:

Cornwall

Easter we all meet - this year it was 25. 

Starting in about 1964

(2023 this was painted)

then to Lower Tremorn for our summer holiday.

Asturias - to see my lovely cuz and wife. Wonderful time.

Sergeac - on a felt making course for a week and I LOVED it.

The year ended with a look to the past through my 2023 diary and thoughts of what 2024 would hold.

Now onwards into 2025