After enjoying a highly indulgent family Christmas (one too many mince pies!), I have spent the days leading up to the New Year festivities adding the finishing touches to my newly renovated home studio!
After sanding the original floor boards, I decided to finish them with a richly coloured varnish and I think the flooring contrasts beautifully with the light green paintwork.
'And which carpenter did you use?', I hear you ask. Well, in fact the storage shelves, work table and pegboards have all been hand-built and installed by my husband who, due to his new-found hobby, is now fondly known as DIY-Dave!
Over the coming weeks, I''ll be putting up pictures and making the studio work both creatively and practically, for optimal creative production! It will be a space that will evolve with me I'm sure.
The painting that will have pride of place over the fireplace, is a watercolour still-life painted by my great-grandmother Mira Elizabeth Bateson when she was 15 years old. It's wonderful to have one of her paintings, confirming the source of my artistic roots!
