New Prints available at RedBubble.

 

New images available at RedBubble. Currently there is a 25% discount sitewide so you can treat yourself to these or any other piece for less. The offer ends soon...

Prints available at RedBubble ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

Room to Run   ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

A distinguished Gentleman   ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

Moonshine   ©2025LisaLeQuelenec

Glinting Moonlight   ©2025LisaLequelenec

Headland and a Sudden Shower - etching and drypoint prints

 

Headland    etching 6x6cm   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

It certainly is starting to feel autumnal now with noticeably darker mornings and evenings. Occasionally more dramatic skies and rain showers and a mellowness in the air. I have been reprinting and restocking some of my older plates which are now available in my Etsy Store with prints from these edition at Folksy too.

I have been inspired to work on some new larger prints. I am still in the platemaking and testing stage but hope to have something to show soon. Below are the initial sketchbook thumbnails - these are tiny inch square sketches/ideas - I am working out how to translate them into larger images, how far I can push the boundaries of the plate size before the image is lost. 

Sketchbook thumbnails for the Heavy Weather Series ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

A Sudden Shower   10.5x5.5xm  drypoint etching   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

A little blue book of blue

Sketchbook pages from my little blue book. I'm about halfway through this little square sketchbook (14x14cm) it has a blue cover as apposed to the usual black ones and so I am using only blue inside....a bit easier for me I know. Maybe next time I will brave a red cover and only use red...only joking!  I don't think I could manage that.

From my Little Blue Book  ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

From my Little Blue Book  ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

 

From my Little Blue Book  ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

From my Little Blue Book  ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

From my Little Blue Book  ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

From my Little Blue Book  ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

A busy week...

 

Such a busy week as I am restocking some new work into my Folksy Store. By Friday everything should be ready with the following pieces available;

As Black Friday races towards us I should also mention that my Red Bubble store has upto 60% off with many giftable items available and as ever my Society6 Store has offers going on too.

In between all of this activity I have also taken a break to look at some favourite treasures and getting inspired for some new work....

Beach found treasures   ©2023LisaLeQuelenec

Beach found treasures   ©2023LisaLeQuelenec

 

Wishing you all a creative and happy week!

Gulls, storms and monoprints

 

A little monoprint experimenting has been occurring... thinking in ink...sometimes unexpected things happen which lead to new ideas to explore. That happened with this print below. The plate for some reason known only to the gods of print slid in the press making these lovely marks suggesting cliffs. My work is usually of the sea from the shore or clifftop but now I am thinking in terms of from the sea/sky. Ideas are percolating slowly forming more thinking in ink is needed....

Listening to the Wind   monoprint and mixed media   ©2023LisaLeQuelenec

The print below on the left is where I had been intending to go. A monoprint with an embossed gull shape in the lower margin. I am still toying with the idea of including text within my work, slowly trying things out and experimenting. The version on the left is a digital copy with added text.. I am unsure so have photocopied and written on it/tried a fully digitised version in photoshop...I am still unsure. What are your thoughts? Which do you prefer? I think maybe in this image the text is a little too big and obvious....? I will live with them for a while.

...and the gulls cry...   monoprint and mixed media   ©2023LisaLeQuelenec

This print was pulled from the plate after the one above, I added and wiped extra ink to the remnants, playing with marks. If the one above was as the storm was building then this one would be the storm from within. Same composition very different energy.

 Storm Spray   monoprint and mixed media   ©2023LisaLeQuelenec

For now I will go back to thinking in ink, exploring, pushing pulling the ideas and experimenting to see where it will lead.

Stormy seas in mixed media

 

Inspired by the recent weather.....one minute the sky is ominously black, the wind is howling and the downpours begin, wellies are a must to negotiate the puddles.....next minute blinding bright sunshine.
 

 

Racing Home    17x11.5cm mixed media    ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

 

All pictures are available in my Folksy Store.

 

 

Green Wave    17x11.5cm mixed media    ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

After the storm passed   17x11.5cm mixed media    ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

New Page Tab - Coastal & Quotes 2022

 

Heading to the beach ©LisaLeQuelenec2022

I have enjoyed building a collection again over the course of this year and as much as the planning and painting giving me lots to think about, the curating of the pieces - their running order and how they could be placed on walls has also been food for thought. I think I will work on another collection in this way next year, I already have a few ideas in mind, one is quite different to October's.... 

As these two photos show, if the weather the last couple of days is anything to go by there may not be quite so much time to research comfortably outside so there might be a bit more inspiration coming from things gathered and brought home. 

Anyway I hope you have enjoyed this collection of paintings and thank you for following along. All the paintings from October are available for sale in my Folksy store here.  To see the collection in its entirety I have made a separate page here on the blog, just click on the tab at the top.

And leaving pretty quick! ©LisaLeQuelenec2022

31 A Silent Delight - acrylic on board

 

A Silent Delight    20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'The moon like a flower in heaven's bower,

With silent delight sits and smiles at the night.'

                                                                                                 William Blake

Available in my Folksy store

30 Serenade of flight - acrylic on board

 

Serenade of Flight   10x10cm acrylic on canvas   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec 

'...gentle

serenade of flight,

snow arrow, serene

ship in a transparent storm...'

                                                                     

                                                                    Ode to the Seagull Neruda

Available in my Folksy store.

Serenade of Flight   10x10cm acrylic on canvas   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

29 Winged banner - acrylic on board

 

Winged Banner   20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'Sail,

bright boat,

winged banner'

                                                                             'Ode to the Seagull - Neruda

A memory of a Summer's day moon..

Available in my Folksy store.

Winged Banner   20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

28 A Vast Space - acrylic on board

 

A Vast Space   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'..a vast space in which you become aware of the turning of the earth

and the insignificance of man.'

                                                                                                                  Fred Cumming

Available in my Folksy store.

A Vast Space   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

27 Drinking the Moons Reflection - acrylic on board

 

Drinking the Moons Reflection   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.'

                                                                                                                                     Rumi

Available in my Folksy store.

Drinking the Moons Reflection   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

26 Wading in Silence - acrylic on board

 

Wading in Silence   10x10cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'...silence has a sound you hear it only after hours of wading in it.'

                                                                                                                  Anne Spollen

Available in my Folksy store.

Wading in Silence   10x10cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

25 The colour of longing - acrylic on board

 

The colour of Longing   20x20cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'Blue is the colour of longing for the distances that you never arrive in.'

                                                                                                                                 Rebecca Solnit

Available unframed in my Folksy store.

The colour of Longing   20x20cm acrylic on board ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

24 Scintillating Seas - acrylic on board

 

Scintillating Seas   20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'...the sea in the darkness calls;

The little waves, with their soft white hands,

Efface the footprints in the sands,

And the tide rises, the tide falls.'

                                                                       Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Available unframed in my Folksy store.

Scintillating Seas   20x20cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

23 Sitting in Silence - acrylic on board

 

Sitting in Silence   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec

'When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has motion.

It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water.'

                                                                                                                       Anne Spollen

Available in my Folksy store.

Sitting in Silence   10x10cm acrylic on board   ©2022LisaLeQuelenec