New 'Heart' prints.

It has been so long since my last post, every day has been wonderfully busy painting, fulfilling orders for shops, making a new collection of giclee prints from my original paintings and I'm starting to create a new online art gallery.  In this post, I wish to show you the new 'Heart' prints. These are printed on A4 matt archival paper with archival inks and hand embellished with touches of gold leaf.
These are now ready and listed in my etsy shop.

 'The First Song' by Amanda Clark. (c)

'February Moon' (c)

                                                             

'The Last Snow' (c)

                                                               

'April Eve' (c)

                                                                 

'May Meadow' (c)

                                                               

'The Crown of Summer'

                                                       

'A Gift to the Moon' (c)

                                                             

'August Moon' (c)

                                                                 

'Searching' (c)

                                                                   

'Fields of Lavender' (c)

                                                             

'Fairytale' (c)

More new paintings and prints coming soon along with a new website!

                                                                 

New Paintings for 'Obsidian Gallery'.

During the last couple of months of the very wet and soggy British Winter, I have been creating new paintings for a wonderful art gallery, 'Obsidian'.  This is a very special art exhibition of some of my favourite artists in the UK.   Ed Org with his wonderful fantasy art and books.   Jesa Marshall, beautiful jewellery!   Julien Hatswell,  Amazing art, sculptures and clocks.  Sue Burne, stunning glass engraver. Also Sue Rawley, magical pewter boxes and mirrors.
If you are around Stoke Mandeville from the 14th February, please pop in and our work on display.

These are a few of the paintings I will be showing along with these artists.

The Waiting by Amanda Clark 

The Hare and Moon by Amanda Clark

The Watcher by Amanda Clark

All of my images are copyrighted so please ask first for any use. Thank you.

In the next blog, I will be showing my new tiny original paintings of butterflies.

Having a few months to sort out for wholesale selling to shops and galleries, I've missed writing for my blog page so I'm sharing a few images of my 'Winter Wonderland' paintings for now and hope to share a story or two soon. These are also available in my etsy shop as prints and look out for the greeting cards too! A Winter's Dream' by Amanda Clark. 'Moon Stones' by Amanda Clark. 'Shaman Flight' by Amanda Clark 'Yule' by Amanda Clark. There are many other wintery paintings, prints and greeting cards being re listed in my shop in time for a magical Xmas.

New paintings and art prints

May and June are are my favorite months and I'm painting again until the first light of dawn . The black bird is the first to start the dawn chorus and wakes the sleepy heads  into the new day. It has been still been quite cold here and the flowers are longing for some sunshine and it was only yesterday I saw the first honey bee. I think by the end of this week we will have some warm sunshine at last.

While waiting for the warm late Spring days, I have been busy making new orders for prints and cards for galleries and gift shops. Painting original paintings and finishing commissions. June is going to be another busy month supplying art galleries with new works and giclee prints and listing new small mounted prints for my etsy shop.  I thought I would show you a few that will be available in a day or so.

First Light by Amanda Clark (c)

Under the Stars by Amanda Clark (c)

Gathering Daisies by Amanda Clark (c)

Moon Light by Amanda Clark (c)

Starlight by Amanda Clark (c)

Winter Fairy Tales in August!

East of the sun and West of the moon.

This month ...still in August I know. I have been reading wintery tales and folklore and one of my favorites has got to be a Norwegian tale, East of the Sun and West of the Moon.  Even the title of this story brings amazing images to my heart and mind.  Some how it reminds me of winter and the cold feel of the North wind.   How did I ever miss this one as a child!  The young girl in this story saves the prince! 
I have seen many illustrations for this fairy tale and I wanted to try to capture the feel of the story  as a painting.  I have the perfect frame for it too. Chunky white wood with an inner frame of icy soft gold.

Shaman Flight.

Ok, so we all know that 'Santa' is a shaman in folklore, right?  Usually the rein deer would fly with him after both eating the mushroom, 'Fly Agaric' . So if this mushroom did give the rein deer visions and altered states of their usual rein deer happenings, maybe they would see themselves as unicorns as well as the magical ability to fly! Anything is possible. In any case, shamans must know about the unicorn and all matter of magical, mythical creatures so who knows where the rein deer must have taken him!

Winter's Dream.

The inspiration for this painting is from the fairy tale of the 'Ice Queen'. Another tale I seem to have missed as a child but seem to remember images somewhere down the years.  Winter is a time to go inward to a creative and meditive space of which I'm really looking forward to.  This Summer has been so busy with all the running around and crazy fun.  Autumn isn't far away. It will soon be time to slow down and dream those far away dreams.