I have been spending a few hours each month gradually sorting through my very many belongings, in particular everything to do with my past business of painting on silk. I recently came across a box with some unfinished silk paintings in it. Wondering what to do with them, as I am not able to finish […]
Steamy Cannas
I don’t know why I haven’t already written about this painting. To me it was my ‘piece de resistance’, twenty one years of painting on silk culminated in what turned out to be almost my ‘swan song’. I had been growing Cannas for a very many years, both at the Possi Gallery and in our […]
My First Painting on silk 1988
I awoke this morning from a dream where I was sat on the edge of a tennis court hand rolling a silk scarf where my late paternal grandfather, my ex brother in law and my husband were playing tennis. The court was in the car park of a converted glove factory in Milborne Port […]
Scilla
‘Scilla’, acrylic on silk by Paula Carnell copyright 2007 Many years ago, when I had the Gallery ‘Possi’ in Castle Cary, I met a lovely couple who’d visited us shortly after moving into the town. They were interested in the Elaine Peto Hare sculpture that was in the window of the adjoining cottage. I was […]
Four leaf clover
Four leafed clover was painted between January & April 2008. It shows the view from my studio window. It was one of those ‘eureka ‘ moments where I realised I had my perfect subject and was looking forward to spending the next twenty years or so painting it. This row of poplar trees had been […]
Annie’s jug
This was painted in 1994. Annie was my first or second employer and a friend of my mothers. Annie still owns & runs a residential home for the elderly in a small Dorset village, near to where I grew up. When I was around 14 I started help as a ‘care assistant’ for the then […]
Last Sunset
‘Last Sunset’. Acrylic on silk by Paula Carnell copyright 2013 I could write a book about this painting, but today I’ll keep it brief! I painted this in November 2008. The view is of a row of poplar trees that grew in the field behind our house. Earlier in that October we had noticed some […]
Roger’s Orchid
This painting was started a few days before Christmas in 2005, on a Kona Coffee farm in Hawaii, just outside the village of ‘Captain Cook’. There are so many stories around this painting, and when finished and framed it travelled the world, spending time in a Santa Fe Gallery before returning home to me where […]
Diana’s Pom Pom
Rather than grieve when people leave my life I’m learning to appreciate that age old saying, ‘people come into your life for a reason or a season…’ The story of this painting is all about someone who came into my life with all the promise of being a long time friend but after her ‘reason’ […]