Mothers Day Gift

Something no-one else has, was my thought. “I’ll paint you anything you like” was the offer to my mum for a gift for this years Mothers Day.

After dismissing a picture of one of the recent life models I’ve met, as being too much for a woman of her years (not!), she decided that it shoudl be something that would bring back memories of when my sisters and I were little … happy times, happy holidays.

We looked at photographs of Mudeford but could not find one that really captured it as my mum felt it. So taking the time-machine further back we settled on our childhood holidays in Devon. The gorse on the hillsides. A quiet cottage on top of the cliffs. The tight windy cliff paths down to the glittering seas, and the white horses breaking over the rocks.

The wonderful sweep of the bay as the powerful waters roll in, and pull a little more of the cliffs each day. Rock pools that contained little pinching crabs, limpets and swaying sea anemones.

Ooh I hope she likes it when it’s delivered in a couple of weeks time.