Breakfast by Fiona Phipps

Fantastic monoprint Fiona, great composition with the different shapes and lines and the brown paper really adds interest. Like the colours too the gold(?) adds a lovely accent.

You're so full of ideas Fiona! Today, went to Berwick for a talk on Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. I think you would have loved it, how her abstracts developed.

Why have it wear off? It's great.

This is delightful, Fiona. Unusual and distinctive, and the colours are sublime......mouthwatering! Lovely work.

I do love your versatility Fiona...bags of interest here.

Anjana, thank you. The composition did itself really, it’s how a put them on the table......I just had to do a print! The yellow is Naples yellow. I’m jealous Marjorie, you’re right I would have loved the talk. Who was the speaker? Our tutor was a good friend of hers, he brings some of her work to class for us to study. He brought in three of her paintings, one of her off set carbon transfer prints and a couple of her silk screen prints last week. He has some great tales about her. One of the paintings he has is of small off set circles set along thin lines, when he asked about the idea for the painting , she said she was traveling home on the train and there was condensation on the window, it was the pattern of the droplets of water running along the gully of the frame. Thank you for your comment Marjorie.

You are absolutely right Gudrun, I don’t want it to wear off! Thank you. Thank you very much Ann, glad you like it. I think monoprints can be an acquired taste, I love them they are so unpredictable, you never know what you’re going to get. Sylvia thank you, I do appreciate your valued feedback.

Breakfast! Strewth, where’s the bacon, sausage and eggs? Very creative monoprint, nice job.

Talk given by Geoffrey Bertram , excellent, of the WBG trust. We went to the exhibition at The Granary afterwards.

This stood out Fiona. I do admire your talent with so many different mediums and this is great.

Love monoprints, Fiona, and the colours in this work really well together. (Would make an interesting design for a tea towel or place mat.)

This was only the first course Alan, bacon and eggs next! Thank you. Thanks for that Marjorie, I was only recently on the WBG trust website and was almost tempted to buy one of her paintings. Wish I had know about the talk and exhibition, would have been worth a trip over to your side of the country.....unless of course it was a private affair. Davy (tutor) was recently at an exhibition of her work and said he was surprised that nothing sold. Thanks for the info.

Carol thank you very much for your comment. Hope you are continuing on the upward path! Me too Jenny, I’ve been doing quite a few monoprints at the moment and loving it. Thanks for your support.

This is really good Fiona and well done for creating something so different from breakfast cereal of all things! It's really interesting to see such work.

Thank you Louise there are only a few that would appreciate this kind of thing, and you’re one of them. Thanks again.

Are you suggesting that I'm different in some way..lol You're right!!!

Yes! It’s great to be unique, never been one of the flock....lol. Mind you I’ve never had the choice to be included...lol. You see beyond the surface, is what I meant I suppose. Or something like that....you’ll know what I mean...lol.

I'll take it as a compliment..lol and I do like your different 'breakfast' which actually looks a lot like mine but without the brown paper!!

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