Sarah-Jane Szikora

Platinum Jubilee

Congratulations to Her Royal Biscuity Highness on being Queen for 70 years.   (This painting is sold)

Spring 2022

Hello and Happy Easter! Spring has long been my favourite season. Wedding-confetti blossom and lambs going ‘BOING!’ can do nothing for the soul except good. Spring brings fresh hope and we really need it.  The world feels unsettled. It’s as though a pandemic wasn’t enough; a war and its ripple-effect has been thrown in for […]

Happy New Year!

May 2022 bring you all that your heart desires. Love, Sarah-Jane    

Autumn 2021

Dear Party Animals, Sarah-Jane here, reporting for duty.  At first glance, you may not be able to tell much difference, but when you weren’t looking, my online home has been rebuilt by the web-wizard known around these parts as Dr Wilby-Von-Tech, The Baron of Byte. We were recently invaded by foreign spam-fiends. It’s not that […]

Summer 2021

I say, it’s turned out nice again! This summer has been so warm and sunny that my daily meanderings have been even more pleasant than usual. Fortunate to live by the sea, I’m used to having the sands mostly to myself and I was expecting the influx of holiday visitors to be potentially irksome, but […]

Spring 2021

Dear Gingernuts, I have had my vaccination. One week ago, a giant biscuit nurse with kindly sultana eyes, delivered the injection so efficiently that I just about managed to utter my thanks before being swiftly corralled through the health centre and expelled un-glamorously, via a fire exit, onto the street. There wasn’t time to consider […]

Christmas 2020

Dearest Belles and Baubles, I hope you are keeping well. I expect you are up to your eyes in tinsel or sherry, but I wanted to raise a hand before the year is over. And what a year it’s been. In fact tell me, am I asleep and dreaming or have I gone quite mad? […]

Autumn 2020

Hello there, Just me, checking in from my bubble, where things are peaceful. If you are also bubbled, feeling bubbly, in a bubblebath or just blowing bubbles, I hope yours is a place of comfort while the virus continues to rage around us. Luckier than some, my years of solitude at the easel have inadvertently […]

Summer 2020

Hello lockdown lovelies, Are you well? I hope so. The wheels came off the world, didn’t they? it feels like the UK is at least on the hard shoulder now, and waiting for the recovery vehicle. Having personally escaped with nothing more serious than a bumper scratch, I reflect that my own related frustrations are […]

Spring 2020: The Blue Period

Dear Friends, What extraordinary times we are living through. We have been called upon to act with extra diligence, patience and consideration and to be clean. We have been asked to temporarily sacrifice our precious liberty and to wait. These are not big asks when it comes to saving lives. From the front line staff […]