What a lovely morning with the Thursday Art Group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre...it was a printing frenzy again...Great results with our prints of Paisley Town Hall, sea shell print block wallpaper and some background painting too...well done to all the artists!

The #BayeuxTapestry coming to the UK is exciting and all but DID YOU KNOW that in our Archive we have our very own tapestry which tells the story of St Magnus? It's not QUITE as old/long/historically significant as the Bayeux Tapestry but still well worth a visit. 🪡

It's a beautiful sunny weekend in Scotland...I'm staying in the shade mostly. I've started a small canvas (10 x 8 inches) and just completed doing the outline drawing. It's a traditional Paisley pattern teardrop adapted from a pattern from the 1840's. Happy Sunday...😀👍...Lil

At todays womens heritage workshop we spent a lot of time online looking at the census returns for the Female House of Refuge in Paisley...we got to these records via a search for "Mrs Stark" the Matron of the Refuge. Original research carried out at the one and only DRC

Thank you Big Art Show ...we are totally made up that our mixed media artwork of a red Amaryllis lily has been chosen as the display poster for the 2025 exhibition...we are thrilled...! BIG ART SHOW, Paisley The Art Department, Paisley Ltd

The Thursday Art Group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre were continuing with creating hand made wallpaper swatches, finishing off some collagraph printing and preparing to have a go at styrofoam printing more of that next week.who knew printing could be so much fun!

You know I'm having way to much fun at work...as these few photos attest to I think ...thank you to Joe for taking these photos of me being very serious giving a demo of styrofoam printing...😂...what am I like...😀...

It's been a busy week for Gatekeeper Art...but I took some time out this morning for some therapy of the artistic kind...😀...putting some colour on the wee Paisley pattern canvas I started last week... Feeling chilled and enjoying a Happy Sunday...hope you are too...😀👍...Lil

UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt

Our main task at todays Women's Heritage group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre was a bit of statistical analysis of the age ranges of inmates using the 1871 census for the Female House of Refuge at 5 Stow Place, Paisley. Who was a "typical" inmate of the Refuge?

Hoorah it's Thursday so its time to do some printing at the Thursday Art Group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre. Here's a some of our printmakers and their artworks today.. well done team...!

Another lovely Sunday morning spent working on my "big" canvas...putting a top coat on + highlighting detail of one of the derelict shops on Well Street; the wee "hoolet" (old Scots term for an owl) + the double headed figure...representing the Roman God - Janus. 😀👍...

Today at the Women's Heritage group at the wonderful Disability Resource Centre we continued with some analysis of the returns from the 1871 & 1881 census for the inmates of the Paisley Female House of Refuge. We also looked at Trade Directories online...all so interesting...😀

The magnificent print makers at todays art group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre went for it today creating wonderful styofoam prints and experimenting with some over printing too...well done artists...!

Detail from the canvas I'm working on...shows the "counting house" building in Well Street. As I walked past the building this past week it's quite sad seeing it being demolished..my depiction is a record of a building now part of Paisley's history...passing thoughts...😀Lil...

At the Women's Heritage Group we looked at trade directory adverts for the Paisley House of Refuge commercial laundry as well as doing a "live" search of the 1891 census...

What a smashin' morning with the Thursday Art Group at the amazing Disability Resource Centre ...! A full house today making phenomenal prints...well done artists your work is fab...!...

From 2019 a wee canvas showing a big louse sitting on a piece of Ayrshire whitework...shown as part of an exhibition of works inspired by the poetry of Rabbie Burns at the Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway...! "Ah wad the power to gie us, to see ourselves as others see us..."

It was to nice to have our final workshop of the current women's heritage project indoors...so we had some al fresco heritage chat with a cool drink or a cuppa outside in the sunshine this afternoon...!

Oh what a productive and fun time this morning with the Thursday Art Group at the magnificent Disability Resource Centre . Well done artists...your prints look just brilliant...! 10 out of 10 I'd say...!...😃...