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My 2007 watercolour painting of Homelea and Mayfield on Sark’s Rue Hotton (otherwise known as the ‘Mermaid road’) has been framed and is now for sale at La Maison Rouge Gallery.  Since painting this view in 2007, Homelea has been demolished and a new building is now nearing completion.

The gallery will be open every Tuesday and Thursday between 2 and 4 until the end of October.  If you would like to come and have a look around at another time please contact me and I will be happy to arrange a time which suits you.  This painting is also available as a limited edition print. Please click on the photo to enlarge.

Morning light on the cliffs below the Pilcher’s Monument is always dramatic.  A bit of a southerly breeze blowing, cloudy and sunny.  

Another hot summers day.  Came down to sit on the rocks above Gouliot and paint the view southwards.  Lots of boats coming in to moor up.  The sea is such an intense cobalt and where the light is blocked out the inky green/blue is really dark, the colours of the sand and rock showing under the water.

Follow this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p008rzrj/Jenny_KendallTobias_16_07_2010/ to listen to the Sark programme which was broadcast live yesterday from Guernsey.  Jeremy la Trobe Bateman, Karen Adams and myself talking about all things Sark.

The Artists for Nature Foundation’s jubilee project on Sark is being reported today in Channel TV’s news reports.  More information can be viewed on their website.  Please click on the link below

http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline%5Fguernseynews/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=489645

This temporary installation on Pembroke Bay in Guernsey by leading British artist Andy Goldsworthy was his only UK based work this year.  In association with ‘Art and Islands’, the piece entitled ‘sand stones’ took Andy and his helpers six hours to complete and was gradually eroded and washed away by the incoming tide.

While I was on the beach I was very fortunate to be able to talk with Andy about Sark and the forthcoming Artists for Nature Foundation’s project planned here for next year.  I also gave him a copy of the CD ‘Sark voices’ and he told me that he was hoping to come to Sark next year.  Watch this space…

Just a quick update on the progress of the Artists for Nature (ANF) project planned for next year.  Since the press release was sent out we have had a great response from both islanders and visitors to Sark, with lots of donations being given towards the costs of the project.  Tomorrow I will be attending the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative (SICRI) ‘Art, Islands and Islomania’ conference which is being held this year in Guernsey in conjunction with ‘Art and Islands’ from Wednesday until Friday.  Ysbrand Brouwers from the ANF will also be coming over from Holland to attend the lectures and to promote the Sark project.  The Sark promotional film will soon be ready and I will post more details here when they happen.

Tomorrow I will be giving an interview to Channel Television explaining what the project is all about, and this should be screened on either Tuesday or Wednesday.

What an island!  Lihou has many wonderful features, and we were lucky to have them all to ourselves, overnight, and until five o’clock in the afternoon when the tide went out again and exposed the causeway for visitors once more.  I was out at four o’clock in the morning to watch the sunrise over Guernsey and I was not disappointed.  The nine of us painted seascapes, flowers, nesting birds and their young, and some great work was produced by all.  Thank you Sarnia Arts for my introduction to another ‘gem’ of the Channel Islands.

Tomorrow I travel over to Guernsey, and on to the beautiful island of Lihou, the most westerly point in the Channel Islands with a group of eight artists from the Sarnia Arts Group who are based in Guernsey.  Lihou was recognised as a ‘site of Nature Conservation Importance’ in 1989, and purchased by The States of Guernsey in 1995.  Like Sark, Lihou is also abundant in bird and marine life and is an unspoiled site for nesting birds and many interesting and rare plants.  I will be teaching and sketching on the island tomorrow and then staying overnight, the results of which will be posted here on my return.