Happy Shropshire Day!
Looking for a place to stay in Shropshire? Check out this Airbnb filled with my paintings!
ART for Your Love
When it comes to giving something special, I don’t think it comes any better than gifting a piece of personally comissioned artwork or sharing an art class together and here at SHROPSHIRE TROPICALIA you can get it all!
Blue Monday anyone?
#bluemonday anyone? Time for some #dopaminedressing for your walls!
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Apparently it’s the most depressing day of the year AKA ‘Blue Monday’. For those of you who haven’t heard about this let me explain! Everyone is still broke from Christmas and it’s a long way still to pay day for most. It’s cold, it’s dark and it’s REALLY HARD to get out of bed.
Where to see great art in Shrewsbury, Shropshire & Beyond
Shropshire may be a land-locked county but it awash with fantastic places to see (and buy) all kinds of art from contemporary to more traditional locations. You can currently see my work in Ty Pawb, The Parades, and Gateway Gallery from 2025.
I Think A CHANGE (A CHANGE) Would do you good!
The number of hair styles and colours I’ve sported over the years is frankly bewildering. My Doctor Who style regeneration has kept my colleagues, students, family and friends in a constant state of alarm…
Are You a colour Lover?
One of the first things that people talk about in my work is my use of colour. Highly-saturated, pigment-drenched, rich, vibrant colour. ‘Dopamine dressing for your walls’.
How Can Art help Your Mental Health?
It’s hashtag#worldmentalhealthday - and it cannot come as too much of a surprise that making art and being creative is fundamental to safeguarding yours
The Joy of Pets!
Recently, I had a commission for a pair of pigeons called August & Candi, who the owner had found injured, been told they were beyond saving by a vet, and nursed back to health. These two were an absolute joy to paint, with iridescent plumage and their own unique characteristics against a lush, verdant green and pink background.
Lemon-AID!
Anyone who’s been following for a while will know that I am literally obsessed with lemons. For me they are symbolic of concentrated light, life and love. They bring hope in the darkness and we boy do we need that in October! The German poet Goethe on his travels in Italy discovered that anything was possible in ‘the land where the lemon trees grow’. My first tutor at uni doing Fine Art (a super intense feminist, sweary, terrifying, northern Irish lady with a leopard print dyed no 1 buzzcut, who I really admired) on seeing my first attempt at using oil paints to paint one 🍋 from observation described it thus ‘if it’s possible to make a lemon look URGENT Lucy you’ve certainly done that…. this is an urgent f-ing lemon!’