It has been a stunningly lovely summer at Barnhillies, months of windless, cloudless, balmy days – lovely for sun bathing and catching up on visiting family and friends, but not for painting.

With the break in the weather inspiration returns – it’s the banks of mist and cloud, the shafts of light, the constant shift of light and dark, the inky colours…  It feels strange to be ‘on my own’ now I’ve graduated, but there’s lots to do and I still get a special thrill giving people my business card, which reads Annie Peel, Artist.