Happy New Year! - Roo Waterhouse Art

Happy New Year!!

I hope you all had an enjoyable festive season?

Mine was quiet and cosy with sprinkles of family gatherings dotted about – just how I like it 🙂
My latest bespoke paintings were completed and most gratefully received in time for Christmas… one of them for a ten year old’s January birthday (no photos of this one yet!)

Happy David with his bespoke Shelf Portrait – a surprise gift from his wife 🙂

..and this one commissioned by Penny, for herself (the best kind of present!)

This week I have been putting the finishing touches to an Observer’s Books painting. I had it on my studio wall as a work-in-progress during winter Open Studios and so many people connected with the half dozen titles I had painted.
One visitor remembered their grandmother gifting them ‘The Observer’s Book of British Geology’ for their 8th birthday, and they grew up to become a geologist as a result!Which Observer’s books do you connect with?

Observer’s Books final details….

When I was quite young, I used to enjoy sitting cross-legged on the floor, pulling Observer’s books off the shelf one by one and looking at all the illustrations.
This was a somewhat hazardous pastime, as the bookshelf was behind the door and there were often three older brothers running around the house with a tendency to throw doors open with gusto – possibly in the knowledge that there might be the bonus of squashing a little sister behind it and extracting a loud squeak!!