do you mind if I paint?

 You may think that quilting is my first love?

But for me it's always been (in a non pretentious way) about art.

If you ask me where my favourite place to hangout is...

I may give you a handful of answers

a garden centre..a fabric shop..portobello market..an antique fair

but really my number one favourite place

is in an art gallery.

There's nothing more inspiring than a whitewashed wall

splashed with vibrant canvases.

Or dark walls with a moody oil or two.

My biggest regret in life is rebelling against 

my art college student life..

and the fact that I never did go back to study..

something about having a life of my own,

with no rules.

I was taught that to create art

there must always be thought behind it,

something that appalled the 17 year old me.

But now that I'm older and wiser

I totally agree.

Don't get me wrong I'm not going all artsy on you,

I'm just realising how my art college years have 

shaped the way I quilt and why I have to be different,

and to show my working out.

Just like quilts I have had paintings floating about in my head.

So when this months Le Challenge theme was announced

as geometric

I knew I had to crack on.

My first attempt in oils 

I'm calling severence.

 Having the book;

  Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (thanks Lisa)

 fall apart as I read it

I knew I wanted to recycle it.

I feel very in tune with Virginia Woolf

and her fractious view of high society and
the continuous present.

This is just a start

not my le challenge entry

 I have bigger fish to fry...