Invitation to Exhibit in London!

'A Right Royal Street Party'

Such excitement! I've been invited to submit for consideration my Diamond Jubilee painting, 'A Right Royal Street Party' for the Spring Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at London's Mall Galleries!
As I'm still completing my current commission, I'm juggling preparation for the exhibition with final stages of this most recent painting. 
Busy, busy, busy! (And enormously exciting!)

Thanks from Buckingham Palace!

Leicester watercolourist, Peter Welton, who knows his way around the artistic world like no-one else I know, suggested during my recent exhibition of paintings that I should send a limited edition print of 'A Right Royal Street Party' to the subject of the portrait in her Diamond Jubilee year, Her Majesty the Queen.

To my surprise and delight a few weeks on and I've received the sweetest of notes from Buckingham Palace, calling my artwork 'splendid' - not, unexpectedly, from HRH herself, but from the Palace nevertheless. Here it is, and here am I, and well chuffed about it I am too :)

Liz Hewitt and her letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace