Oh I just love painting with these acrylics!! They're so satisfying and really pack a punch of instant colour. I'm using these handsome, chunky little box canvasses so they'll be really easy to display and easy for you to hang. No framing required here! Yeah! These make fun and funky prezzies for everyone, so have a look at buy online or at a discounted price at my craft fairs. (See 'where to buy' section for dates and details).

Well it's grey November but I'm getting Christmassy in my little workshop making Christmas cards, New Year's cards, Christmas gift tags and lots of exciting new ideas to help make your Christmas a bit different and very original. Look at 'Shop' to see what I've been painting.

Even if you're only spending a little bit on someone this year, make it look that extra bit special by adding one of my Christmas gift tags and sending one of my new super duper original, hand painted...yes really! I'm up all night long like a Christmas elf at the moment....Christmas and New Year cards.

Don't forget to look at 'Where to Buy' for details of my up coming fairs and sales.

New, individually hand painted Christmas Cards! 

 Come and buy my cards online (£1.95 each or 10 for £15.00 here at my website) or at the Heathfield Art and Book Shop.

Heathfield Art and Books is an independent bookshop and art gallery which prides itself on offering a friendly and efficient level of service.

65 High Street
Heathfield,
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
Tel: 01435 862184

Mon-Sat: 9.30am - 5.00pm
Sun: Closed

http://www.heathfieldartandbooks.co.uk/

Come and buy my cards, prints and

paintings

at the

Christmas Craft Fair, State Hall, Kings Church, Station Road, Heathfield

on Saturday 3rd December 11am to 3pm

Christmas Fair

 at Chequer Mead Community Arts Centre,

 De La Warr Road,

 East Grinstead,

 RH19 3BS

Come and buy my cards, prints and originals at

 affordable prices for brilliant presents!

Saturday 17th - Thursday 22nd December 2011 

Times         Sat 17th from 1pm to 8pm

                 Sun 18th from 1pm to 8pm

                   Mon 19th from 10am to 8pm

                   Tues 20th from 10am to 8pm

                Wed 21st from 1pm to 8pm

                 Thurs 22nd from1pm to 8pm

Isn't this weather amazing!!! I'm digging in my garden...sewing lettuces and spinach and attempting to save an Acer that's looking rather forlorn..

I'm also practising the accordion ready for a May Day Maypole event....watch/listen to...this space! (I'm going further up the garden at the request of my co habitees).............!

Just a reminder that I'm no longer at Orchard Nursery and with National Trust work commitments, am unable to take on as many commissions. Please still email any enquiries as I've not given up painting all together.

Enjoy the sun...

Dear Customers,

From March 2011, I am working three days a week for the National Trust at Standen. This means I am no longer at Orchard Nursery. For any painting enquiries, please contact me via the website or by phone.

Sally

I'm just home from another trip to one of Freya's University interviews....I'm slowly getting used to the idea of her leaving the nest.....slowly! She's such a joy and is so excited and enthusiastic about the Animation Degree courses she's applying for. On her last interview they offered her a place there and then! This one was a little more challenging, all good practice I explained to her in the Burger King we found ourselves in straight afterwards...bit different from the wonderful little Italian restaurant we'd had dinner in last night...followed by a freezing sprint (thank goodness as I had a massive plate of amazing linguine.....ah!!!)..back to our Travelodge for the night!

Checked my emails and was delighted to see that one of them was an order to go across the sea to Belfast...dear old town that I'd spent my Uni days.....way back in the late 80's. So that's brilliant and it'll be winging it's way to my very good customer...Hooray!

Hello everyone!

It's been ages since I've 'blogged' but life's been hectic....university open days for my daughter...my little yellow car's been driving all over the countryside and it's been great fun. Freya's applying for an animation degree course and hopes to go to Bournemouth Uni....fingers crossed!

Meanwhile, I've been busy painting and planning art classes for the new year...so watch this space!

AND there's a BIG SALE on in my little studio, so come along and grab yourself a bargain.....what could be better as a brilliant Christmas present than a gorgeous original Sally Scott watercolour painting or print.

Right, I'm off now to make a start on homemade Christmas present tags...come and say hello, it's cold outside but the heater's on in the studio, so you're guaranteed a warm welcome!

Don't forget....I've always got more paintings, so if you see 'sold' in the shop section, then please enquire as I'm happy to paint a similar picture. Great for birthdays, anniversaries, leaving presents or just a special something for the ones you love. 

August's been quiet, but I'm still smiling! The summery weather's been wonderful for displays outside the studio...really eyecatching from the road with  lots of new customers popping in having seen my new blackboard sign on the bank. The nursery's having new signage too soon, so I'm expecting to meet lots more lovely customers.

Well, summer's flying by and already the fickle weather keeps me running in and out of the studio, one minute putting out my baskets of prints, cards originals, the next minute I'm bringing them all back inside.......last Saturday I did this at least four times!

I thought I'd share some of the latest pictures of me in action in the Sally Scott Gallery. I'm painting some very tranquil Sussex scenes at the moment, a change from the zappy sunflowers and zingy bright flower collection of last week.

Sometimes the hardest part is actually starting....here's the beginning of one of my Sussex landscape scenes.

Original chicken watercolours, from £30.                                                 

Cock - a- doodle doo!

My chicken paintings are the best sellers! They've literally been clucking out the door this week, so hurry if you're a poultry fan!

I've had a fun week in the studio - lovely weather, door open, lots of goodies in my baskets outside. I was very excited to start painting a new range of cards and notelets too, they're going to be tall and thin, a bit quirky! It's always fun to start a new project and my little handmade cards will be ideal for all your special occasions.

I've also started painting some lovely little box canvasses acrylics, they're easy to hang anywhere and make a really special keepsake. I'm also using some very indulgent gold leaf.....ooooh! I love using real gold, there's definitely something very special about it, very precious and luxurious!

I've just finished this interesting scene of East Grinstead's old high street.These two photos show the two stages of painting. I had to make sure the drawing was really detailed before starting the painting.   

It's cold...I know, but these will warm up the coldest of walls!

All in the sale ..... they're big, bold watercolours, approximately 18'' x 24'' in old money, only £50 now in the sale (down from £80) ....so come on, pop in and see for yourself....they'll transform a winter wall in your home or office.

Having had a great time painting the school mural in acrylics, I decided to introduce some big, bright, happy acrylic paintings to the gallery to contrast with my traditional watercolours. They're really vibrant and I'm painting onto stretched canvas boxes which are easy to hang. Hope you like them!

Tune in and Switch on to QVC The Shopping Channel (640 Sky or 16 Freeview!)

Tonight, May 5th at 7pm and Saturday 8^th at 10am, (Channel 640 Sky, 16 Freeview) I’ll be presenting live on QVC The

Shopping Channel, selling beautifully designed and illustrated RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) candles, drawer liners,

reed diffusers and scented sachets for a whole hour!

I’m nervous but very excited as this is a dream come true! Three years ago I was shortlisted from thousands, in the QVC

Search for a Presenter and I’m already doing some presenting on the Painting and Drawing Channel with the  SAA and

Teaching Art Ltd, (Society of All Artists), but QVC is really special as it’s a massive, well established brand, in fact it’s the

USA’s second largest TV channel.

I’ll be broadcasting live from the QVC building (Marco Polo House) , Battersea, so I hope you can tune in and join me.

Seventy hours, five bottles of acrylic and four paint brushes later.....it's complete! The St Mary's C of E Primary School, East Grinstead, mural is complete! I stepped off the step ladder for the last time this afternoon....Can't wait to see the children's faces tomorrow at school. One thing I do know is they'll be my strongest critics....but I'm ready to hear their feedback...What do you think?

 

Excitement filled the air as I arrived at the Painting and Drawing Channel studio last week!

We've got a new studio and it's looking fab! We spent three days filming with the wonderful Terry Harrison, working through some amazing watercolour scenes which will definitely inspire and motivate you into picking up those paint brushes.

Watch out for the latest details of broadcast times - should be also shown on Freeview now. Hooray! Happy painting artists.

I just wanted to share with you a wonderful day that my lovely boy Jack and I spent at Sissinghurst Castle. The spring weather was perfect! There were lovely painting ideas!

   

Spring has at last sprung.....I'm looking out of my window and a pretty trail of primroses rambling up the garden....but it's been a busy, busy week painting on a grand scale! I've been commissioned to paint a 10 x 5 m mural at my son's school! So up and down ladders I've been, balancing, stretching, trying not to spill too much paint! I asked the children in Year 6 to think up some ideas and had a brilliant response! Thank you, you creative team! So now, I'm incorporating as many as I can for a Fairytale theme for the wall of the new library.. .... Here's how it's going so far...

New Opening Times at the Studio

From March 2011, I will be working for the National Trust, at Standen, three days a week on a changing rota. This means that I'm unable to say exactly which days I'll be in the studio. I do apologise for any inconvenience. Please contact me via the website or by phone for any painting enquiries. Whenever I'm in the studio, I will put out my 'open' blackboard on the bank in front of Orchard Nursery.

         

                                         

I'm delighted to offer a new service! A range of beautiful, bespoke wedding stationery....

Perfect Country Wedding Bespoke Watercolour Stationery

Invitations

Place settings

Table plan

Napkin tags

Thank you cards

And anything else you may need to make your special day even more perfect..Just ask me. 


Prices

Invitations Printed design (your choice of flower) with envelope £1.99 or if using a notelet design already in my range, £6.50 for a pack of six.
Place settings  4" x 3" original watercolour with Edwardian style printing for name  £2.50 each
Guest seating plan up to 35" x 24" sheet of heavy watercolour paper with handpainted border ready for you to draw table lay out £45
Napkin tags 3" x 2" original watercolour design £1 each
Thank you cards 3" x 3" original watercolour on  a 5" x 5" card and envelope £3.99 each 
 
                                                                               

   
We've had an incredible amount of snow already this year, so Jack, Freya and I made good use of the school closure, setting about to build an igloo! Watercolour paintings had to be put on the back burner...I mean, back freezer....and the creative glacier creaked it's way across our Sussex garden. Freya was chief igloo builder, I made the bricks using a bucket, a bit like building sand castles, and Jack hauled sledgefuls of fresh snow to use as cement! Making sure there were ventilation holes, we built a couple of shelves for the candles and sat inside eating our dinner! The acoustics were amazing - it really was a little magical wonderland. Perhaps we really are related to Scott of the Antarctic!

I won't be long........

Despite the snow, there's always a warm welcome in the Sally Scott Studio!

Due to the white stuff, I'm unable to get to the studio at the moment, so apologies to all my customers!

See you as soon as possible! Please check via email or phone before visiting the studio at the moment.

The schools are closed so I'm baking cakes and biscuits, and building igloos and snowmen with Jack and Freya, to satisfy creativity and avoid watercolourpainting withdrawals for now!

Happy New Year and hope to see you all very soon!

Sally

After a slippery, slidy and treacherous journey to the studio today, I swept the snow drift away from the door, switched on the heater and crunched a few pine branches underfoot to give a Christmassy smell to the place!

Not even extreme weather will stop me from watercolour painting - and I was in the mood for sunflowers, poppies and tulips today, so pop in and see them if you're sledging by! It's looking chilly on the outside, but I promise you a warm welcome.

The mince pies are in the building!


      
Christmas cards, £1.95 each or 6 for £6.50

With the soft flurry of snow this afternoon and Bing quietly crooning from my ipod, I have to admit beginning to feel quite excited about the festivities next week. Don't forget to come in for last minute presents - paintings and prints from only £4.99 - they make such good presents! And there are Christmas cards and notelets too, so no excuses!

I'll be open until 5.30 pm on Christmas Eve, then re open 2nd January.

Merry Christmas and all the very best for the New Year!