Shirley Goodwin's Page

Those of you who read my main blog (http://shirleygoodwin.blogspot.com) will know that I've had many upheavals over the past few months, what with shifting to a different region, buying and selling a house, and then needing to find a "day" job to pay the mortgage. Consequently the creative side has been put on hold while the practical matters dominated. Now I'm pleased to say that my life is coming together. I am going to buy a financial services business (so unlike the creative work I do that i… Continue

Do others suffer from the same problem? I think other artist' work is better than mine. More interesting, more colourful, ...just better.

This pic is my first attempt at painting digital images and putting them into a wallhanging. The blocks are just placed together, no stitching yet. I can't decide whether it's worth continuing with it or not - I've enjoyed doing the painting, but I don't think it's a great piece of artwork.

If you feel this way too, what do you do to overcome… Continue

Hi everyone,

I'm finding this site exciting, after weeks of inactivity due to selling my house and moving to another district (about 3 1/2 hours' drive from where I was). I don't have a job yet (I relocated for personal reasons) but my new house has a studio (well, office/studio really) and I'm having trouble dragging myself away from it.

I'm into printing digital images at present, using Photoshop and Virtual Paint (thanks, Adrian!) to distort and re-colour and whatever else… Continue