{"id":1369,"date":"2021-03-12T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:25:17","slug":"what-a-wonderful-spring-as-an-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/what-a-wonderful-spring-as-an-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Wonderful Spring &#8211; as an Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Concertina watercolour sketchbook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prospect-of-Freedom-acrylic-LFA-News.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prospect-of-Freedom-acrylic-LFA-News.jpg 800w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prospect-of-Freedom-acrylic-LFA-News-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prospect-of-Freedom-acrylic-LFA-News-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prospect-of-Freedom-acrylic-LFA-News-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prospect-of-Freedom-acrylic-LFA-News-480x383.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Prospect of Freedom, acrylic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What a wonderful spring.&nbsp; &nbsp;As an exercise I decided to fill a concertina watercolour sketchbook (bought a while before at the Norman Ackroyd exhibition in Bretton Park and consigned to a cupboard). &nbsp;Each day I painted in the garden and just enjoyed a relaxing time. &nbsp;No onus to make a finished work of art\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018During the second lockdown, with all the time in the world, I felt myself to be drifting, not painting much at all!&nbsp;Then, this week, I suddenly started making pictures inspired by the easing of lockdown.&nbsp; The prospect of freedom.&nbsp;And it&#8217;s spring again and the birds are singing&#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a wonderful spring.   As an exercise I decided to fill a concertina watercolour sketchbook (bought a while before at the Norman Ackroyd exhibition in Bretton Park and consigned to a cupboard).  Each day I painted in the garden and just enjoyed a relaxing time.  No onus to make a finished work of art\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"What a Wonderful Spring - as an Exercise - Leeds Fine Artists","description":"What a wonderful spring. As an exercise I decided to fill a concertina watercolour sketchbook (bought a while before at the Norman Ackroyd exhibition in Bretton"},"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sue-atkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}