For many, Easter is a four day weekend. Thursday evening seems just a little more relaxed than normal in anticipation. But two days of great weather have given way to a deluge. Luckily I caught sight of a group of paddleboarders at high tide and sunset. When the weather was being kinder

I took one of my ‘bad’ photographs and,  inspired by my puddle photograph of yesterday. I created an image with similar bold colours but enhanced the softness  of colour reflected in water.

I decided to slightly change the location and relative size of the paddleboarders. I will tinker with them some more over the next few days.

I suspect that this will be my image of Easter 2025 as I tweak it  into submission, in both senses of the word, ready for an exhibition in May.

As an aside to all this, my workspace is finally finished. It has taken us 6 months to find exactly the second hand furniture we needed to store regular life and art materials. We never intended bright pink to be an accent colour but an old sari is the perfect cover up for works in progress on the table, and my lovely old typewriter is just the perfect shade of beige.

Even as I write the words  ‘perfect shade of beige’ I realise that this tidy work space is another piece of great procrastination. I need to set to and get on with the work for the Turner Exhibition at the end of May. But while it was in a tidy pristine state yesterday I sat and filled in the application form on line. When I was done, not a thing was out of place.

It didn’t last.