At last!

The new studio/gallery is finally finished and I've moved in, though there's still plenty to do before I hold my opening night and weekend portes ouverts in September. My husband is busily constructing me a storage unit for my materials and I'm waiting for the arrival of the special plugs for the walls so I can hang my pictures - hope my artisan friend hasn't forgotten them!
On the writing side I've at last managed to send off my latest novel and will wait with baited breath to hear the result from publisher Hale. It's two years since I had anything with them and, times being how they are these days in the publishing world, they may give me the old negative blue biro.
I'd love to say that I'm writing again in full flood, but right now I'm facing a marathon of painting so I have something new and perhaps more exciting to hang in the new studio, which is big enough to take quite a lot of paintings as well as visitors - I say hopefully.
I'm still clearing out the old camping car, which has done me proud as a workshop for the last couple of years. I shall miss my window on the pond and the distant hillsides, but there are far more advantages in having a proper place, well insulated, good light and electricity. The only thing it's lacking is running water, but then it's not a far step to our kitchen and downstairs bathroom, so I'm not complaining.

Birth of an art studio

I've dreamed of it, wished for it during more years than I care to remember. A proper studio of my own. Well, as I write this, the dream is fast becoming reality as I'm sitting here listening to the enthusiastic work going on in our big shell of a barn. In another few days I should be able to work in the new studio - painting and writing and, hopefully, receiving visitors to my permanent exhibition of paintings. Don't you just love it when dreams come true? I am so lucky and can hardly wait to get started on a marathon of painting so I will have something to show at the official opening in September.
Meanwhile, I'm hard at work editing my latest novel, but finding it hard to concentrate because of the builders and their noise, not to mention the great heat we are experiencing at the moment with afternoon temperatures running up to around 90°F. Summer has been long in coming but my goodness now that it's here it's hitting us hard.