The leaves on the tree shimmer, catching the breeze, casting my mind this way and that. I have words circling my head, clattering around - flitting between memories and dreams. What did I have? What would I like? I want it all and none of it. It is all inside, cloaked in smiles. The sunshine cannot let the moon control the tides. The sea is calm, tacit; it ripples. Wavelets are origami ships. My dreams are beneath an ocean heart. Blue. Serene. ©Sarah Drury 2023
I don’t do much acrylic work, but was suddenly inspired to get them out and have a dabble. I wanted to paint an underwater scene. So here is a child swimming underwater with her goggles on!
Goggle Girl, acrylics on canvas panel. 20x20cm ©2023 Sarah Drury
I love to paint little portraits of children, loose paintings in watercolour. Here are some painted in 2022/3.
Copyright © 2022/3 Sarah Drury
A special friend and I have a silly word we say to each other in our giggly moments (or piggy, eating moments) which is ‘oink’. I have painted this picture as a tribute to our silliness. I call it ‘Oinkers’.
I wrote this poem last year, after a special moment with my son last Christmas…
Wine It is civilised, beans on toast swished down with non-alcoholic Chardonnay. Generic classical music, Radio 3, Silence from lips often throwing flames and shrapnel. ‘This is awkward’ you say, sophisticated words, and we share a movie moment. You read a poem, and for a time, I feel Bohemian, and I forget that life is not art. © Sarah Drury 2021
the starry-eyed mermaid 