Wednesday

Just look how this glass comes alive when the sun shines through :)

You would hardly think this was the same place, would you !

Monday

Friday : daily picture

spiral galaxy : oil on canvas, janet driver

Some years ago I became fascinated by spiral galaxies ... looking at the sheer beauty of many of them...  as I joined in with thousands of other volunteers in the ‘citizen science’ project classifying photos of galaxies at  www.zooniverse.org/projects ...and now there are all kinds of different projects hosted on this website...why not click on this link and see if one of them is for you ?

Daily Picture

Found this beautiful Iris mosaic on Pinterest...

I had also posted some of my own garden photos, as the purple irises are a lovely contrast to the pink cherry blossom beside the road... but oddly they turned upside down on this page :(
I will try again later :)

just read on BBC news that today is 30 years since Hubble telescope first launched...so to celebrate there will be a highly visual programme to stretch your mind back through time...

Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed is broadcast on BBC TWO at 9pm on 24th April

from Hubble images 

Wivenhoe Library Exhibition : Sunsets and...

Visit Wivenhoe Library & enjoy some of my paintings...

Creative Spiral: children can enjoy looking for all sorts things hidden in this spiral painting

& not always noticed unless you stop & look

I painted several sunsets, seen across the Colne at Brightlingsea where the brilliant effect of sunlight shining through the mist on the distant shore and across the water is really quite amazing.

 I remember as a teenager swimming here one evening with a group of us who had been playing tennis, and we could hardly believe the intensity of gold flooding the sea all around us as we bobbed & floated along.

Dawn Mist Rising          oil on canvas, Janet Driver

I continue to be intrigued by dawn mist & the "lost & found" nature of things hidden or revealed through the mist. Can you guess the river marshes this was based on ? 

Hanging next to it you will find a painting of  this scene at sunset. Again a surprising sunset where the light lit up the wall hidden by the dawn mist with a brilliant reflection almost like gold.

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