Well , its been a while since my last post . without going into things too much , its been a sad difficult and delightful time and I am much stronger than I ever knew . Since I last bogged I have won the David Shepherd Wildlife artist of the year "Wild Places " award  twice more . Three years running is a rather good record I think . :-) I have also been featured in Kent today  , leisure painter and David shepherd wildlife matters magazine . The Competition has even been covered by the wall street journal . Its a great thing to be part of .
Next thing for me ? a studio revamp . The old design isn't working for me and over the years I have changed the way I paint .
This is an exciting time . I have been developing my printmaking skills and can now carve both linocut and woodcuts and I have a new range of greetings cards and postcards out with more to follow . I plan to list everything on my etsy shop in the new year . Links will follow .
 Hope you all had a great christmas and I wish you a happy new year .

My new years resolution ? to get organised and get art done :-)

Painting update

Its coming along . I added some thin white drippy paint and its beggining to gain mass . I can see shapes i can use and its exciting at this point .

This is the latest progress on my new large canvas , SIlberhorn . It wont stay so drippy , im using acrylic in wet washes at the moment for transluscency . 150x100cm .

Leasure painter article

I am in Leasure Painter magazine . There is an interview with the winners of the Wildlife artist of the year award in which I won the wild places category . Out today :-)

Swiss trip 2011

Back from two  weeks in the Swiss Alps It was amazing , thankyou to my hosts Peter and Annaros  Muhlemann for making it special .

Whist I was there I took thousands of images which im still editing and filing  and I managed some plein air watercolour and graphite sketches .

Snow leopard

Next painting up on the wall ( I hang the canvas there to paint ) is a snow leopard . I wont share it yet because the background is at the uncoordinated messy stage and it hasnt got its fur on , I will update with a progress report when it looks a touch more presentable . :-)

Work in progress . new painting . new website !

My new official website is http://www.sevinayates.com/ . come and visit  , leave tracks in the guestbook please ! I love your feedback .

New painting , oil on canvas 150x100cm . The Alp is the Monch in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland , Its part of  a new UNESCO world heritage site . Im letting it sit and dry for a bit whilst I decide wether to add a flock of Alpine Choughs . I see these birds all the time at altitude and it feels a bit naked without them .