The second part of my series of telling the story behind each piece of art - this one was originally called Fantasy. I called it Fantasy because it seemed like a bit of a dream world, somewhere that I would love to visit and set up camp for a while. We have always wanted to live out in the countryside amongst the trees and the wildflowers and this was almost like painting my dreams! I wanted to stick to the same colour palette as my first landscape and I think they work toget

Summer in Winterbourne Original Painting by Nicola Lester This is the first in a series I wanted to create to tell a bit more of a story behind each piece of artwork that I have created. I love creating things with meaning, and if I don't start with a story, I can always find meaning in there somewhere! This particular piece is really special to me as it's the first landscape I've ever painted on canvas that I really and truly love. I had originally called it 'Beginning' as i

When I first started getting more serious about my art I started to paint things like birds and bugs and posted more to instagram. I had...