Joan Sandford-Cook Gallery

SNOWDROPS IN ACRYLIC

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In January 2008 when I was runninga GALLERY as well as a BLOG site, I posted the above gold and cream version of snowdrops in my series called BY THE WINDOW.

Since taking the girls back home after three days with us over New Year so that our daughter could really celebrate without any family commitments and staying to celebrate their other nanny's 70th birthday, I have wanted to get my acrylic paints out and play. Here is the result of using an image in my archives of the original snowdrops and simply playing with colour and texture - and I even cut strips of a leather type fabric to create striped curtains. I added patterns to reflect all the other colours in the painting.

Here is my latest version. It was fun just doing whatever I fancied and they certainly look very different. More painterly I feel and less decorative.

CONSOLIDATING MY TWO BLOGS

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If you happen to open this gallery blog, you'll see Ive not entered much of late, so decided it would be as well to simply just keep my art journal blog going (http://joansandfordcook.blogspot.com/ ) .

If anyone is interested in purchasing any of my works posted in either blog or commissioning any garden, floral or church piece , please get in touch via my email link on the right of both blogs. I work in watercolours, acrylics and oils. Even have a wonderful set of Ashby pastels I get out from time to time.

Here are samples:

Watercolour floral .............Acrylic floral

Church acrylic ....................Church oil

Bye for now - Joannie

WHITE LILIES IN ACRYLIC

2008-05-21T02:16:00.000-07:00

I thought it was about time I added something to the gallery and now I have added a background to my satisfaction to bring out the strong shapes of the flowers, I have chosen the pair of acrylic paintings of lilies from my garden I started last year. The flower shapes have been created with acrylic paste, giving them a 3D effect and then painted. I have added gold and copper paints and beeds to make the works more decorative.

1 WHITE ARUM LILIES WITH COPPER BACKGROUND AND BEEDS

2 WHITE LILIES WITH COPPER BACKGROUND AND STAMENS

Although shown framed here in this posting, they are for sale as unframed canvases 16 x 20"

at £185 plus postage at cost.

RECENT CHURCH WORK

2008-05-08T08:35:00.000-07:00

1 All Saints Church Ruin Hainford Norfolk Oil Painting 16 x 20" framed @ £185

2 St John the Baptist Coltishall in Snowdrop Time Watercolour 12 x 16" original mounted and framed @ £145 or mounted prints at £55

3 St John the Baptist Coltishall across the allotments watercolour 12 x 16" original framed and mounted at £145 or mounted prints at £55

4 St Bartolphs Church Grimston Norfolk Oil Painting 16 x 12" original framed @ £165

Since moving to the Norfolk Broads I have been very interested in the local churches, sketching and painting around the many villages. From time to time these have been posted on my art journal blog, but I have now decided to add them to my gallery for sale. Postage and packing at cost.

INDIGENOUS FLOWERS OF SOUTH AFRICA

2008-02-18T06:59:00.000-08:00

1. KAFFERBOOM TREE

2. KING PROTEUS

Both these watercolours were painted whilst I was in South Africa last Autumn. Painted on Saunders Waterford 20 x 16 inch HP paper with Sennelier watercolours. They are for sale unframed but mounted at £155 plus postage and packing.

FRENCH AND FENLAND FIELDS

2008-02-07T08:26:00.000-08:00

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1 MISTY MORNING IN SW FRANCE

2 MURROW HARVEST TIME

Similar ideas but one in France and the other in the Fenland of England. Both in acrylic.

The French scene is where we used to visit often with friends on the edge of the Dordogne and painted on 16 x 16 inch box canvas. The Fenland one depicts fields behind our last home in Murrow painted on acrylic paper, highly textured in the foreground, mounted and framed. Both priced £175 plus postage and packing.

SECRET GARDEN SERIES cont'd...

2008-02-03T07:09:00.000-08:00

1 A WALK IN THE GARDEN

2 FAIRY GLEN

These are two other paintings in this series (as the Bumble Bee painting was sold it was posted mid January in my journal blog ) . Both were from my imagination with lots of texture/collage in the Walk in the Garden piece. Both acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches at £175 plus postage and packing.

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1 FISHING BOATS AT KINGS LYNN NORFOLK
2 STROLLING ON HUNSTANTON BEACH NORFOLK

I dont often paint landscapes, though I love water, so I surprised myself when I created these two pieces. I was on my way round the quayside to go shopping when I saw the fleet in with the fishing nets still up! Very naughty I parked the car up and went through the gate marked NO TRESPASSING or some such negative statement to go over to talk to some fishermen to see if I could sketch an little and take some photos. I must admit I used the photography for all the rigging detail, but glad I had seen it in the flesh so to speak, as there were 5 cabins and 5 masts and hulls you would never have realised otherwise.

As regards Hunstanton beach, I confess it is a made up situation in respect of the people and birds but otherwise based on a trip to this local seaside spot with lighthouse and coloured cliffs.

Both in acrylic on canvas at £225 each plus postage and packing.

TYPICAL ENGLISH PUBS

2008-01-27T09:49:00.000-08:00

1 GONE FOR A BEER

2 HAPPY HOUR

When we lived in the Fens (East Anglia of England) the village pub was just a few yards up the road and I wanted to create the feeling of typical pub interiors when I realised not many of my works were suitable for men. I thoroughly enjoyed creating these two from imagination adding lots of golds. They are acrylic works painted on acrylic paper rather than canvas and are available double mounted sized 25 x 15 inches at £185 each.

WATERCOLOUR ROSES

2008-01-21T07:49:00.000-08:00

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1 KAY'S CREAM ROSES
2 VALERIE'S HAPPY TIMES ROSES

These were both gifts from friends at the time of our wedding anniversary and I could not resist painting them in watercolour. The Cream roses were a cut bouquet and the Happy Times are in a purple pot now by the greenhouse in the back garden. Both 21 inches square including mount at £165 each plus postage and packing.

LOCAL EAST ANGLIAN LANDSCAPES

2008-01-20T07:24:00.000-08:00

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1 FENLAND HARVEST
2 NORFOLK POPPYFIELDS II

These are both textured acrylic canvas works sized
14 x 36 inches. The Fenland Harvest is a scene
behind our garden when we lived in Cambridgeshire and
Norfolk Poppies were in a field near my daughters
home. Priced £215 unframed plus postage and packing.

WHITE WILD FLOWER SERIES

2008-01-19T09:06:00.000-08:00

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1 BINDWEED WITH BUTTERFLIES
2 DOG ROSE WITH BUMBLE BEES

These are part of a small series of 8 x 20 inch unframed canvas
acrylic works priced at £145 each plus postage and packing.

BY THE WINDOW SERIES

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1 GOLDEN SNOWDROPS
2 TWO'S COMPANY

These are part of a series of paintings based on windows.
They are both unframed box canvas 20 x 20 inches in acrylic
with gold textural highlights. Both £175 plus postage and packing.