Jill

@gingerjill.bsky.social

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Recovering people-pleaser, hoping for benevolent government. Far too optimistic. Gardening and painting allows me to find the strength to follow the politics 🇬🇧🇨🇦

Sleeping cat wwith tongue out
Expressive landscape featuring crags on Alnwick Moor, with Heather in the foreground.
Garden posy of roses and sweet peas.
Back view of car on his back, legs in the air, on a patio with flower pots on foreground.
Blue plate of salad in front of a huge Aqualegia plant with yellow and orange flowers
Sketch in acrylics of a stormy sky over a harvested field.
View of rhododendron bushes in front of tall conifers. Colours include pink, purple, yellow and white
View from a deckchair at Wallington, Northumberland. Lawn, flower beds and trees
Morning mist hovering over the town of Bakewell, viewed from the hill above
Cherry blossom orchard with people using the many swings, and taking pictures .
Close up view of forget-me-not blooms peeking out from under the cat mint.
Wild poppies amidst a ruin
Tabby and white cat patiently sitting at the table waiting for lunch.
Small window sill propagator and packet s of poppy seeds.
View of tall trees through mist and rain.
Red branches of a dogwood bush shown from above. Underneath, some primroses survive in the rain soaked soil
Tabby asleep on a white furry blanket with green sofa, cushion and small Christmas tree. He has had his turkey.
Tabby and white cat lies on his back under a Christmas tree. His defiant expression is as a result of being told off for batting the hell out of the felt cow toy on the tree.
Watercolour of a cat looking out of an open front door to the snowy path beyond. There is a gate and stone pillars at then of the path, and a Christmas wreath on the front door.
A4 Canvass of 3 Rudbeckia flowers with an abstract background of vertical stripes of turquoise, orange and green. Painted in acrylics.
Older gentleman in a photograph is sitting outside a cafe in profile. He is perusing the menu. Tones are primarily blues, green and white.
Acrylic painting on A4 canvass. Close up view of one fuschia flower, in pink and red. It is contrasted by bright green leaves.
Watercolour of the back view of 3 small boys looking over and through a 5 bar gate at a tractor in a field.
Acrylic painting of a black and white cat, asleep, surrounded by soft furnishings in muted rainbow colours
Painting in acrylics on canvass. Depicts an ancient stone and brick wall, with a white door in the middle. In front are steps and foliage leading to a clear chalkstream.
Study on A4 canvas. Older wirey man sits cross-legged under a large Linden tree, looking at his phone. Green, yellow and blue palette. Wallington, Northumberland
Crags beside the road on Alnwick Moor. Imagined as a winter scene with snow, but vibrant greens, yellows and purples .
6 metre high straw Yule Goat
WIP painting of a cat curled up on a sofa, using neutral colours.
Front cover of The Fathers by John Niven
Abstract of winter scene inspired by Alnwick Moor.
View of autumnal woodland
Corner of small garden with Rudbeckia, Roses, fuschia, and Japanese Anenome.
Pond with autumn trees reflected. Fountain in the middle.
Large Copper Beech against a blue sky
3 dep pink rose blooms
Small posy glass vase with sweet peas, roses and Rudbeckia.
Border with bushy Rudbeckia and pink and white cosmos.
Abstract marks with palette knife on a turquoise background
Beneath a blue sky is a view of a copper beech, with a church building to the right, dwarfed by this magnificent tree.
Acrylic on. A4 canvas. Close up of. Fuchsia flower with vibrant leaves
Bowl of fruit and yoghurt in a garden
Painting in Acrylics of a door into a garden. There is a river in front, and old stone and brick walls hiding the garden beyond
Garden scene, with pot of flowers in the foreground, rose, sweet peas, and Cosmos, through rainy window
Thanked for being Chill People by a 14 year old!
Rudbeckia plants put in last September. 3 small cuttings.
Loose watercolour of rainclouds over golden field, with farmhouse and trees in the middle ground.
Close up of Sweet pea bud
Small blue glass bottle with purple scabious flowers
cat in the foreground in shade, with a grassy area behind, next to a pool.
Clump of wallflowers with orange buds and flowers.
Small acrylic study of ma song under a tree. Colours are predominantly greens and blues.
Small pink peony bloom
Large red poppy in bloom, amid a small perennials border
Perennials flower bed with large red poppy flower about to unfurl.
Small courtyard garden in the rain, with pot of Marguerites in foreground.
Small plastic pudding cup and coaster
Abstract painting in Acrylics, 3 rudbeckia flower heads, with abstract fence behind
Small border filled with perennials including phlox, poppy, lavender, scabious, Aqualegia, Campanula.