Fig Taylor.

BIG organised for Fig Taylor to visit on Tuesday this week.

She was great, she has so much information in her head about the industry, well all different industries really and after a quick Q & A about how to present your portfolio we all split into smaller groups and did mini portfolio reviews, it felt a bit like Dragons Den on hyper drive trying to get all the words about what I am doing and where I want to be with my work but the feedback was great and has given me lots to think about and do with regards to approaching book publishers.

Of course after I had left I thought of a million other things I wished I had asked so I am pretty confident that I will be visiting Fig at Somerset house soon.

The lakehouse, Hamburg.

The little one and the lake house, she was my best helper...

Its been too long since I last posted, I have been totally caught up in summer and these photos show just one project I was thrilled to be asked to help with when we were away in Germany visiting our good friends and their new and beautiful baby, paint the lake house...

I mixed paints galore and in the baking heat whilst batting away horse flies I began painting light blue next to the bright blue sky...

 We had to keep it pretty simple ( didn't want to go too crazy and scare the fishermen ) but they seemed to like it and I am hoping that it is now settling in since we left, it was a magical place to be and gather my thoughts before heading back to a totally crazy Brighton...

So now summer continues down here on the south coast and with the little one back at pre school its back to focussing on work and I Drew This. 

Having now done three trade shows I have a much better understanding of what it takes to get the business going and ask myself whether this is the route I want to take with my work, my prints have been proving very successful and I am still on the quest to find a book publisher to begin working with, with lots of new projects in motion Autumn is looking to be an exciting time...