Contemporary Mixed Media Painter & Mosaic Artist
Inspired by my love of the landscape & my passion for colour and texture
Welcome To My Studio
Hello, I’m Delia and welcome to my online gallery and shop. Thank you for visiting. I hope you will feel inspired by the paintings and mosaic work on display.
A selection of original paintings and mosaics will be available to order from this website and some paintings are reproduced as giclee fine art prints or as greetings cards. If you wish to visit my studio near Builth Wells in mid-Wales before purchasing a piece of artwork, or if you have any questions about my work, please do not hesitate to contact me.
My Art
Landscapes & Trees
I love walking in nature and engaging fully with my surroundings through my senses. My love of texture and colour is reflected back to me in the country lanes and hills – the shapes and colours of the fields created by the hedgerows and the lines of crops or a ploughed field. Spring and Autumn are favourite times of the year with the emerging colours of the blossom or the falling leaves.
Flowers & Still Life
The vibrancy and character of flower arrangements are the focal point of most of my Flowers and Still Life studies. I especially love spring flowers because of the array of colours and when they start to appear in the shops, I want to gather them up and paint them.
Animals
My walks in woodland and across remote fields and moors has helped me to develop an interest in our wildlife – perhaps because they’re rather shy creatures, so when I do get a glimpse of them, it feels quite a magical experience. I like to set them in the context of their natural surroundings.
My enthusiasm for our smaller birds has grown over many years of feeding them and enjoying watching them at the feeders in my garden. I love seeing them darting around the branches and engaging with one another.
Birds
Seascapes
Most of my life I’ve lived in quite land-locked locations so when I have an opportunity to get to the coast, I love it. The sights and smells of the sea itself and the coastline are uplifting and inspiring.
Mosaics
I took up mosaics several years ago as the opportunity to work with quite jewel-like colours and interesting and varied pieces of mosaic was really exciting. Discovering coloured grout shifted mosaics for me from bathroom pieces (with white grout) to really interesting pieces of artwork which can be placed anywhere in the home or garden. I produce three types of mosaics, please click on the category below:
About Me
Having been educated in quite an academic school that didn’t encourage artistic ability, I was finally able to express my creativity when I took up painting at a local watercolour class in the Cotswolds in 2004.
I loved it and over the years I have experimented, explored and had fun with all the possibilities available in terms of medium, style and subject.
The journey doesn’t stop, which is part of the joy of painting and creating. Read my blog to find out more about what inspires me on a daily basis.
”Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
Bruce Garrabrandt.
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
— Thomas Merton
