I had a lovely comment posted on one of my entries at the begining of the week from someone called Pattie… I couldn’t resist clicking on her web address to find out more about her…
On a cold, drizzly, foggy November English evening her paintings blasted up onto my screen and gave me a real boost of instant sunshine!

Turns out Pattie lives in Hawaii, literally on the other side of the world, and it just goes to show what a fascinating place the internet is and who you meet.

It is amazing how colour can transform our day. Quite a contrast, but Richard Whadcock’s work (above right) recently on view in the Adam Gallery here in Bath made a huge impact too. (A favourite gallery of mine, opposite The Salamamder pub, where they sell excellent Wild Hare organic beer from Bath’s own brewery…I digress).

Now, Pattie would love to get a tote in the Rhubarb colour leather. I imagine her wearing a floaty white kaftan with hibiscus in her hair, viewing her tropical acres from a veranda, her Rhubarb tote full to the brim with paints and brushes.

I think it would look a different but equally eye catching sort of fabulous with enveloping, belted grey knits, and high boots, under the black umbrella of a mystery figure, scuttling down a narrow street in the West End, her Rhubarb Tote bag full to the brim with scripts or music scores….

There we go. What a little colour can do to the imagination!