On at my local museum

Elizabeth Blackadder: Still life with lily and flute (image from here)
Recently I had a double pleasure: catching up with a now distant good friend, and seeing a lovely exhibition of a long admired artist.  The first piece of work by Dame Elizabeth Blackadder which I encountered was the print above.  That was many years ago, and I was immediately drawn to the composition, the mix, the feeling: the piece made me both calm and excited at the same time.
Not all of her work gives me that special reaction, but I always love seeing her work, and when individual pieces give me that frisson, it is priceless.
My local museum is the Willis in Basingstoke, and I have been lucky to see some excellent touring shows there.  

(image above from here)
Elizabeth Blackadder: From the Artist's Studio shows a range of her works, painting, drawing, watercolour, and print.  She loves flowers, cats, and buildings, and her compositions have the immediacy of a sketchbook while presenting the kind of timelessness of the carefully considered.

There was also the pleasure of seeing a tapestry made by the Dovecot Studios of one of Blackadder's paintings.

Basilica San Petronio, Bologna (image from here)
As well as the works there are also a couple of video clips to see at the exhibition - this being one of them on her printmaking at Glasgow Print Studios.
A brilliant day - despite thunderous downpours - each of which we managed to miss.