Morrigan Palmer Brown

A weathered wooden garden table with a mug on it. The mug is decorated with cranes. Red flowers and a plum tree in the background.

On 18th June, I broke my right foot and sprained my ankle. It's still swollen, and I find the hideous surgical sandal highly offensive to my (admittedly waning) sense of style. Arting has finished until October and I can't drive until I'm mended. Currently staring into the void. It's unbothered.

I've been painting a friend's beloved and much missed Rottweiler boy for the last 5 Friday mornings, but it was a surprise until it was finished and shown it to her. Here's Bear. He was a darling.

Photo of poem in exhibition: Tell Good People Good Things by Salena Godden Tell each other you love each other. Say love. Show your love. Speak it. Do not wait to talk to a flower in the hope the dead will hear the love you could've said before. Do not wait to talk to headstones and weep at faded photographs. You are alive now. So love now. Tell your good people all the good things. Tell each other you love each other. Do not wait to softly weep to flickering candles or cry your love to a flower too late. Say love. Show your love. Share it.

Picture from the exhibition, pictures of Nikita and I on stage. Words on the wall read - Poetry and Resistance 10 years of Raise The Bar 22 March - 1 June 2025 Featuring poetry by Travis Alibanza, Anthony Anaxagorou, James Baldwin, Mahmood Darwish, Nikita Gill, Salena Godden, Lowkey and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan. Co-produced by Arnolfini and Danny Cario Pandoli poet, rapper and cultural producer.

Thank you! This poem is currently on display at the @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social in Bristol as part of the ‘poetry & resistance’ exhibition curated by @rtbspokenword.com it looks like this BIG love on the BIG wall … “Tell Good People Good Things” 💚🙌🏾

Two pictures of sunlight coming through trees and a canopy of leaves, with bluebells at the bottom. Left hand picture is an impressionistic painting, right hand picture is the source photograph.

Today's Arting. Bluebells at Lanhydrock. Oils. Impressionistic techniques. Much mess made. Much fun had. My mess is on the left.

Yesterday's Friday Arting resulted in this. I'm less than enamoured at the moment, but I'll look at it again once it's dry.
#oilpainting #beginner #paynesgrey

Stuffed penguin toy, wearing a an orange and white striped Penguin jumper (on the beach)

Here's a penguin in a Penguin jumper...

A greyish white goose feather and a drawing of said feather on a piece of beigey coloured paper.

Friday Arting has started again! Today's effort in charcoal pencil and conte pencil. Very much out of my comfort zone.

To be fair, that's pretty much life, right there.

No idea yet. We need more wall space. The next house will have to have the perfect place for him.

Thank you! I was pleased with it when I brought it home, but now I'm finding faults. Might have to go and buy some paint... Spouse is very proud of it and keeps showing it to colleagues via his phone. I didn't realise he'd even taken a photo of it!

That poor creature.

An oil painting of a large, hairy dog's face in shades of grey.

An oil painting on an easel of a grey, hairy dog's face, with the source photograph on an easel to the right and brushes, paints and tissue scattered around because the artist is a stranger to the concept of tidiness.

I think I'm finished with Alfred's pawtrait. It's been a joy to stare at him for a couple of hours on the last five Fridays. I miss him more than I can say. What will I paint next term? 🤔😁
#petportrait #scottishdeerhound #art

I do now! Thank you! 😎

Yesterday's printing class was just as frustrating as the previous apple blossom effort. I was working in sunlight and breeze and the ink was not playing nicely. Plus I now know that I don't like the soft blue vinyl. It's a learning curve. Onwards! Via the bin...

No. Nooooooooo. No.

Good move.

More of this, please. A LOT more of this, please.

Spouse spring-cleaned the blue tit nest box and found a tiny, very cold, egg from last year's clutch in the bottom of the old nest.

A large, fluffy white cat sunning himself on a rock, surrounded by greenery.

Thank you!

A work in progress painting of a huge, grey, shaggy dog's head.

Week 3 of Alfred's pawtrait. He's appearing, I think. I'm really enjoying this oil painting lark.

#wip #deerhound #scottishdeerhound #beginner

Thank you! I really miss the wombly-nosed git.

Work in progress oil painting of a shaggy grey dog's head with a large black nose. Painting is on an easel with a photograph of the dog on another easel to the right of the painting.

Work in progress oil painting of a shaggy grey dog's head with a large black nose. Painting is on an easel with 2 photographs of the dog on another easel to the right of the painting.

Week 2 on painting number 4 in my arting journey. The Alfhound is appearing! I'm quite pleased so far. Hopefully it'll still look like Alf when I'm finished! #wip #scottishdeerhound #begginer #oilpainting

I think it was just a particularly mardy piece of lino! I have to say that I like the precision you can get when cutting it (when it's warm) better than vinyl but that piece didn't play nicely.

Today's printing class didn't go too well. The lino and I did not get on. The block warped and the surface of it was just awful, so I couldn't get any decent prints at all. So I gave up and will try again with a new piece of vinyl.

Thank you!

Today's arting. Started my third painting. Can you tell what it is yet? I'm hoping it'll still look vaguely like a dog when it's finished. Bonus if it looks like my beloved Alfhound! I really miss him.

#wip #beginner #oilpainting #scottishdeerhound

A Janome Memory Craft 550E embroidery machine on a green cutting mat with a clothing rail in the background.

An embroidery hoop with an embroidered design of a red, full-skirted sun dress on a tailor's mannequin.

Finally took the embroidery machine out of its box! Apart from the fact it stitched the design out of alignment (despite me drawing the centre lines and lining it up precisely, it's tilted), I'm quite pleased.

Definitely need a bigger studio!

I put all the stuff from my "Drawing and Painting for Health and Wellbeing" course into a display folder. All of it. Even the stuff that's - in my opinion - a bit iffy. Because it's all part of my journey and I'm proud of myself for taking it.

Phew. I've said it. Now I can go and hide for a bit.

I've always liked their tractors.