TODAY'S PAINTING----IN THE SNOW.

In the Snow----mixed media on 100% cotton watercolour paper.---see website.

Oh it has been snowing in England, but here in Malta -not a flake. How I miss those snowy moments! For me snow is one of the wonderful joys of Christmas adding a dimension that nothing can replace.

I remember as a child waking during the night to sense the stillness, feel the unique cold /warmth and just know that in the morning there would be a snowy carpet outside.

One of my loveliest memories is of one Christmas Eve long ago in Scotland. As we made our journey over the tiny bridge on our way to Midnight Mass, soft snow flakes began falling against a dark backdrop of velvet and stars. Church bells broke the silence----and in that never to be forgotten moment moment a perfect aura of magic enveloped us.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this isn't enchantment then where is it to be found?

J .B.Priestley.