Ceramic pots for spices and herbs

Blue/black spice jars with eggs
Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 76cm

Spice jars seem to have gone out of fashion, perhaps because people use so many different spices now and plastic shakers are easier. Herbs and spices are better kept in the dark though so ceramic pots might make a come-back.

I have had these pots for a very long time and have carried them with me on every move. It was only when I started making ceramics myself that I realised that a lot of the small items I treasure are ceramic ... like these pots.

The old eggbeater

Eggbeater
Acrylic on canvas
38 x 67 cm

My 'domestic items' painting spree continues, this time my mother's old eggbeater which I remember being used when I was a child.

Mother's passion was gardening, but she was also an excellent cook and her eggbeater got a lot of use, right to the day she died.I don't think she ever owned one of the more modern mixers.

Couple

I painted over an old picture of two life drawing models done at wonderful a Michael Taylor workshop held in Grafton nearly 10 years ago.

The eggbeater is an improvement on the original painting!

Painted Egg-beater card
by elizabethgw