For Kate’s 50th birthday, a friend challenged her to create 50 illustrated appreciations. Always one to take up a challenge, this is the result…
All Kate’s “Appreciations” are available framed for £300 each. Please email kate@katetulettart.com for more information or to view the originals.
52 Weeks of Appreciations
Week 1 – “Appreciate yourself, who you are and what you feel deep within your soul”.Week 2 – “Appreciate the small things. Cup of tea. By the sea. That’ll do me.”Week 3 – “Even the rats and rascals in my life can bring me joy!”Week 4 – “Appreciate the power of the waves in a storm”.Week 5 – “Always appreciate what you have before it becomes something you had.” Week 6 – “Appreciate your freedom because you can!”Week 7 -“A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is til she gets into hot water!” Week 8 – “Being a teacher doesn’t just mean inspiring children; it’s about how they inspire you too!” SOLD Week 9 – “Appreciating the advice given by people that love you! “Week 10- “Learn to appreciate , when all gets a little too much you need to take a break!”Week 11- “Today I appreciate 6 years of sobriety!”Week 12- “To appreciate a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can really be”Week 13. “Appreciating the need to Bee Kind!”Week 14. “Appreciating the freedom that comes from inner strength”Week 15. “Appreciating that we are able to provide a place for those who seek refuge”Week 16: ” Learning to appreciate how time consuming report writing is!”Week 17 : “Learning to appreciate our vulnerability in today’s society!”Week 18: ” Appreciating that i am a walking heart attack and need to do something about it!”Week 19: “History was not made by those who did nothing! Elizabeth II.”SOLD Week 20: “Appreciating Cricket “Never give up, just absolutely never give up.” Week 21: “There are no words”Week 22: “To appreciate being appreciated.”Week 23 : “To appreciate someone who doesn’t get appreciated very often” Week 24: “To appreciate the need for a holiday!”Week 25 : “Appreciating that a horse doesn’t care how much you know until he knows how much you care!”Week 26 : “Appreciating life is much easier when you keep your cool in a heatwave!”Week 27 : “Appreciating the serenity you get from walking the dogs in the woods!”Week 28 : “Appreciating having the time to be creative!”Week 29 : “I am learning to Appreciate that some things fill your heart without trying”Week 30 : “Always appreciate the gift of life. Be happy and have fun”Week 31: “Always appreciate there is never not time for a good cup of tea!”Week 32 : “I appreciate that everyday is a new beginning”Week 33: “HM Queen Elizabeth ii 1926 – 2022”Week 34: “Always appreciate that if you are not playful, you are not ALIVE”.Week 35: “Appreciating the patience and resilience the British public show in ‘The Queue'”Week 36: “Turning Tides – Finding new ways to use excess energy”Week 37: “They whispered to her ‘you will never withstand the storm’… ‘I am the storm’, she whispered back.”Week 38 : “Headspace” – Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me!Week 39: “Freedom” – I offer myself to thee. To build with me and do with me as thou wilt, Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do thy will!Week 40: “Mind over matter” – Enjoy your life, no matter what is happening inside the mind. Week 41 Appreciation- “Emma” – I’m the one at the sail, I’m the master of my sea
Week 42: “inner beauty” – You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are now and change the ending! Week 43: ”The Shard” – Friendship must be built on a solid foundation of Alcohol, sarcasm, inappropriateness and shenanigans! Week 44: “Ariella” – Just believe in yourself, even if you don’t, pretend that you do and at some point you will.Week 45: You decide – “One day? Or, day one? You decide!”Week 46: Majestic – “It’s all about finding calm in the chaos.”Week 47: Discipline “The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.”Week 48: Love – Family “Being loved no matter what!!” Week 49: In Flight- “The bird that dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly!”Week 50: Protection – “It is easier to be brave when your child needs your protection.”Week 51: Unworthy – “One of the hardest battles we fight is between what we know and what we feel.”Week 52: The Gift – “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” William Shakespeare
Challenge Completed!
On completion of her challenge, Kate has turned her individual appreciations works into a book and an exhibition of originals, entitled “Turning Tides”, that will be held in her studio from 21st June to coincide with the Surrey Artists Open Studio week.
The exhibition, that starts on the ‘summer solstice’, celebrates a moment in time, a sign of new beginnings, the mark of spiritual survival.
Kate’s appreciations are all about finding that moment every day or week to appreciate “a little life, but a powerful and brave one”. Stick the date in your diary!
Kate Tulett Art 