Email happiness

Sometimes emails that make you feel happy for days land in your inbox. Have you had one of those?

Yesterday, I received an email from Javier from Toronto, Canada, that I met at Salamanca Market in November 2022. He sent me some photos of his young daughter’s, Alexandra, really impressive artwork and a photo of his ‘bird corner’, where he hung up my “Leafy Decorum” print. Thank you, Javier for the awesome email.

Alexandra’s vibrant and happy drawing

A bright and lively Christmas cat by Alexandra

Leafy Decorum hanging up in Javier’s bird corner

Leafy Sea Dragons are probably the most ornately camouflaged animals on this earth. They have leaf shaped appendages attached to their entire bodies to superbly camouflage themselves among the seaweed and kelp they live amongst. They are endemic to Tasmania. Leafy Decorum is available at: https://pjpaintings.com/collections/birds

Leafy Decorum

I hope that a happy email lands in your inbox this week, too.

Warm regards, Patricia (PJ)

http://www.pjpaintings.com

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Update on My Garden Project

In December 2020, I embarked on a large scale gardening project to create a pattern over an area of approximately 8 x 4 metres with succulent plants. This involved firstly removing some very stubbornly rooted spiky plants and a hundred or more buckets of white pebbles. Check out the https://theunfurlingartist.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/a-big-garden-project/(opens in a new tab) to see early photos.

Hobart recently went into a three day lock-down, due to an interstate COVID positive man entering Tasmania, so I was able to spend one day working on what has become a long-term gardening project.

Another spiky plant was removed. Yay!!

Meanwhile some of the succulents planted are starting to establish themselves and the planned pattern is beginning to emerge.

I’m trying to create furled fronds with vertical succulents of different colours to help the fronds stand out. Here’s the basic plan:

Here’s another frond that has been planted but until the plants spread out, it looks like nothing. You can imagine when they start to grow out how the silvery succulents next to the darker succulents, will make each other pop.

I have to re-plant this unsuccessful attempt of a frond. It rained and rained after they were planted and they suffered root-rot. I will improve the soil and try again.

My randomly evolving succulent garden, on the other side of the pathway is continuing to bring colour and joy.

No work was done in the garden today. Instead I worked on a different kind of big project, a painting. I finished number two Leafy seadragon today. Three more to go.

I hope you are safe and floating through this week with ease.

Cheers, Patricia (PJ) Hopwood-Wade