Anj Art - Angela Jamieson

The 2025 calendar has landed! Limited stock, grab yours at www.anjart.co.uk or soon to be in @whynotscotland in North Berwick!All the pre-orders will be shipping tomorrow. Thanks for supporting my small biz! 🩷🫶🏼 #artist #art #calendar #smallbusiness #animalartist #smallbiz #shopsmall

Restock day at @whynotscotland 🩷 Lots more cards and refill of totes! Calendars due in soon 🚀 #animalartist #smallbusiness #whynot #northberwick #retail #artist #animalart #smallbiz #independentshop #shopsmall

When you have a vision for your next painting but you don’t like boundaries and just let intuition and play take over 🙈🤣 This is a work in progress but it’s come to a standstill because I haven’t followed the idea I had in my head and now it’s full of garish colour and I can’t see a way to reduce that without losing the freedom. But on the plus side, I had great fun getting it to this stage 🤣 Also, on a side note, since I like to anthropomorphise and gender my subjects, I feel like this is a stallion, when the painting is about the delicacy of Queen Anne’s Lace, and it probably should have been a mare 🙄🙈 #artistlife #art #equineart #horseart #artist #wip #workinprogress ref photo courtesy of Dotty Weber @ wildlife reference photos

Deer through the years 🦌Starting with my pastels from 2013, to my mixed media in 2023.. it’s crazy to see my style change and evolve over a decade. And a lot happened in between that time. My Mum passed away, encouraging me to shift from the pastels which harboured artist block to acrylics which allowed me to be more expressive. My neurological condition during Lockdown that made me focus more on my art as a full time business. This year I had a plan for my art, as I do every year, but this one was to really push myself and make this a business. To produce more professional work in the hope I could find some gallery representation. But January came and went as I got caught up in the aftermath of Christmas with my day job and in February I was felled with a virus which I’m still battling today. I am trying not to think about the fact I have booked in for having a stall at the Highland Show and all the work and prep that entails! 🙈But when life gives you lemons, suck em up and either deal with the bitterness or make some lemonade! I aim to be back in the studio next week to start on commissions. I have missed painting but the fatigue has been unreal and I probably have to accept the fact I’ve lost a lot of muscle tone being stuck in bed for 3 weeks. I’ll be buff by the time RHS comes around that’s for sure!

It’s Floraidh’s 6 month birthday today! Six months of loving this whirlwind of a crazy thing 🤣 Wouldn’t be without her though, her antics keep me going 🩷Bracken Cherry Blossom #workingcockerspaniel #cockerspaniel #sixmonthsold #spaniel #spaniellife #cockerpuppy #puppy #puppylove

It’s Floraidh’s 6 month birthday today! Six months of loving this whirlwind of a crazy thing 🤣 Wouldn’t be without her though, her antics keep me going 🩷 @florrie_and_brax #workingcockerspaniel #cockerspaniel #sixmonthsold #spaniel #spaniellife #cockerpuppy #puppy #puppylove

Happy 2024! I’m excited to see what the year holds on my fortieth lap of the sun! But before I start looking forward, I thought I’d share some of my faves from last year 🩵 #animalart #animalartwork #mixedmediaartist #mixedmediaart #mixedmedia #artoftheday

Looking back on some of my favourite paintings, I noticed many of them have been painted over an older painting I’ve been less happy with. I call it “adding history”. So in an attempt to recreate that, whilst still keeping the essence of the original under painting, here is what I’m working on just now. How she shall turn out, who knows, but i’m ready and excited for the process! #fox #wildlifeart #contemporaryart #workinprogress #abstractrealism #acrylicpainting

There’s been something bugging me about Vesta.. I couldn’t decide if the leg was too short or the head was too big.. so I slimmed down the neck, sorted the forelock and adjusted the far away leg. It’s interesting to see just how off it was! Much happier now. *Almost* complete!

Finally back to working in the studio which is wonderful! I have missed it, but life has had other plans.. Here’s a work in progress. I’ve painted this guy before, nearly 10 years ago in pastels, but he needed a new, updated, mixed media version 😁The quote is from the poem which has inspired my work for my The Peace Of Wild Things exhibition which is on during @biggarlittlefestival. Ref photo courtesy of Gary Jones. #biggarlittlefestival #biggarlittlefestivalarttrail #workinprogress #mixedmedia #squirrel

I know I’ve shared the final image of this hare, but it is one of my favourites of my recent work, probably based on the fact it was such a struggle to find its path. It started off originally as a stag, and then I felt it would suit being an otter, until eventually, after some time and lots of “end of palette” paint, it spoke to me and said it wanted to be a hare! Sometimes my canvases sit around for a while, a mish mash of colour and texture until, finally, I see it’s purpose. But even after knowing it’s destiny was to become a hare, I still struggled to convey what I wanted and again I put it to the side. I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to manifestations, but maybe that’s what this canvas needed. Time and subconscious manifesting! Often I’m too keen to share finished work, but this painting truly is the story of the tortoise and the hare…Slow and steady wins the race!

These Sweethearts are finally done (bar painting the canvas sides) and I am so glad! I’d like to say I loved the journey but that would be a big fat lie…I HATED it! 🙈 I hated painting the flowers and cutting in round them. Painting the little fox cubs I loved though, made easy by the wonderful reference photo from Menno Schaefer. This will be heading to my exhibition in October, but it also features in my 2024 calendar which I’ll be releasing for pre-orders in the next day or two! Stay tuned 😁 #scottishartist #foxes #foxesofinstagram #sweethearts #younglove #acrylicpainting #upcomingexhibition #fox #foxcub #flowers #wildflowers #wildlife #wildlifeartwork #wildlifeartist

I’m going cross-eyed over here 🤪 I dunno whose bright idea is was to add all these flowers and cut in the negative space, but I am so pleased I’m almost finished blocking in! 🙈 I think it’ll be worth it though.. Sweethearts 28x36” Acrylic Heading to my upcoming exhibition during Biggar Little Festival Ref photo courtesy of Menno Schaefer #wildlifeart #foxes #workinprogress #wip #artoftheday #art #abiggarlittlefestival #arttrail #biggarlittlefestivalarttrail

A short video of work from my Floral Collection 🌸 I have plans for a big painting with flowers, which is inspired by young love. What kind of flowers should I include? Artwork available on my website (link in bio) . . . . . Music: Lofi Study Musician: FASSounds Site: https://pixabay.com/music/lofi-study-112191/ #floral #floralcollection #flowers #flower #flowerpower #nature #floral #floralart #flowerart

Merry would like to remind everyone to leave out some shallow water for our feathered friends to enjoy a bath and a drink, even more so in this hot weather! Merry is my favourite resident here. I am pretty sure she was the sole surviving blackbird baby from the stables nest 5 years ago. She and her dashing but rather timid husband, are currently raising a family in the hedge behind the stables. Mr Merry looks on occasion like he’s literally been dragged through the hedge backwards, but Merry looks glam as ever and spent at least 3 minutes enjoying her bubble bath! (Every other bird was less than 30 seconds) Mr Merry keeps her well fed on the meal worms I put out during the day and then I see her pottering about grabbing worms for the babes. Have you got any nesting birds in your gardens this year?