Barbara Murray Art

I don’t blog regularly as I don’t have a lot of interesting stuff to say! I did think however, that I might just dabble in a few words as I am at home and online comms seems to be the new way of having coffee with friends -not that I drink coffee, hate the stuff! … More Lockdown continues

Still waiting for my treatment, but at least I know what’s going to happen. I will be having my kidney removed on 16th August in Newcastle. Apparently there is a 90+% likelihood that it will be a cancer of the kidney, but I won’t know for definite until after the operation, when the kidney will … More Kidney update

In my last blog post I mentioned that I had a suspected RCC.  That is still the case, but what is making me think a lot is the amount of time that people have to wait from first finding something like this to getting any kind of treatment.  I do finally have an appointment for … More Waiting

I haven’t done any blogging for a while and I was going to keep it to just art stuff. However, this week is proving a bit tricky for me after I went for an ultrasound scan last Wednesday. The doctor had suggested I might have gallstones, so I was relieved when the scan showed there … More this and that

When I posted last I was explaining about one of the portrait workshops I’d attended. The picture here is from the other one which was an Ann Kullberg workshop.  I spent two days in a lovely workshop in Paisley with good friends just drawing. It’s not often I get the chance to do nothing but … More the other portrait

I’ve been on a couple of coloured pencil workshops lately, both doing portraits. Unusual as I don’t often do portraits of people, so to do two in a short time was very different! The first was by a wonderful portrait artist called David Sandell and his workshop was truly inspiring. We spent the first half … More Portraits

Today I changed my WordPress blog into a website. I was prompted by the fact that the site I had’sort of’ done a couple of years ago had expired and no longer exists. That site was just about my artwork. This time it will be about my art, but I’m leaving this blog attached. That … More New site