This comic tale is based on a true story I heard while camping at Wooders Wild Weekend Festival. I'd just had the courage to hold a corn snake and was proudly telling my neighbour when he began to tell me what had happened to his friend while she'd been house-sitting her boyfriend's python. I laughed nervously. The next day, I returned to the animal show only to find they'd replaced the corn snake with... a python. Eventually I plucked up courage to hold it around my neck (it helped that there were a load of four-year olds clamouring to do the same!). When I got back, I wrote this comic. Obviously I had to call the python Monty. See more comics on my illustration page - www.NickiGreenham.com/illustration
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I recently discovered Bennett’s Water Gardens in Weymouth. It's a place I'd been meaning to explore for ages. Walking through the visitor centre and out along the path, nothing prepared me for the view that burst into life around the corner. A lake surrounded by trees rustling softly in the breeze, and the water covered with lilies, their pink and white flowers like small crowns across the water. Dragonflies darted through the sky, and across the lake a red wooden bridge made the whole scene resemble a Monet painting. It was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes. I spent a couple of hours sitting in the sun around the lakes meditating, bathing in the Golden Ray energy of balance. A rare moment of peace when I just stopped and stared for a while..I hadn’t bought my camera with me so I just spent the time looking and absorbing it all which was a gift in itself. Here’s the resulting poem and painting - Acrylic and ink on canvas, 50 x 50cms. Water Garden Here on the bench eclipsed by lilies, faerie and the cossetting green boughs, bubbles ripple from below, ducks dabbling, gliding. This woodland paradise filled with gossamer wings: damselflies, butterflies and the occasional dragon, here the soft whisper of the leaves and waiting water let my breath soften, and there my body sobbed and sighed. Still pools festooned with chakra’d colours, nymphs of pink and cream adorned with centred crowns of gold. Bobbing, mating damselflies coupled in their life dance sew their seeds of spring, And softly, in nature’s warm embrace my heart gently awoke and I saw home. UPDATE: The original of this painting has sold, prints are available at www.NickiGreenham.com/Shop
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AuthorNicki Greenham creates abstract expressionist paintings with stories of joy and freedom. Her vibrant use of colour and mark-making is inspired by nature; she often paints outdoors in the garden or at the beach using the objects around her. Nicki works with angel frequencies and is also a poet, illustrator and author with an MA in children’s book illustration from Cambridge School of Art. ArchivesCategories |