Studio Fridays artists are very busy mid term making new work. I asked each of them to send in a photograph, and a sentence, to share either the piece that they are currently working on, or a piece that they have just finished making.

Dawn Limbert is currently working on a complex pastel painting of wild parsley, seen in Oak Hill Woods, near to where she live. She says that it is starting to come together, but still needs refining.

and Caroline Matthews has just completed a pencil drawing of woodland.

Sara Gregory is currently painting a self portrait called Shift The Blame, linked to her ‘Woman of A Certain Age’ work. She says that she still has lots to do on it, but is really enjoying working at this larger scale.

Whilst walking along a beach in Crete this year, Melissa Harris was absorbed by the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shoreline, and has started to capture some of the strange forms using print.

Elise Mendelle has been working on a piece about freedom – ‘the wind in your hair, time to yourself, and being kind to yourself.’

Ayse McGowan has just completed this painting of blossoms and Ivy intertwined over tree trunks. She says that it represents the burst of life in spring.

Helen Robinson is currently working on the sky section of this painting, to relate it to the area of salt marsh below, and to create a cohesive scene of sky and tidal mud banks on the River Crouch in Essex.