Interior boat decor a la Kath

Kath is a clever old stick.  Time was when she would complain that she couldn't draw or paint or indeed have any artistic talent. Well over the years she's proved herself wrong and the evidence can be seen aboard Herbie.

Take these storage boxes for example - I use them to store small hand tools, screws and wotnot.  Kath covers old fairy washing powder boxes and the like with a collage of bits of paper she has painted on then seals the surface with a hard wearing acrylic wax.

In the galley we have tea towels printed with her canal based artwork

and of course her patchwork curtains in the saloon and lately a matching backing for my chair.

But the most recent idea is a decorative panel to cover up a water stain below the side hatch.  The hatch no longer leaks since we made a canvas cover on its outside, cunningly attached by magnets for easy removal, but previous leaks had done this to the woodwork 

So when I saw Kath painting a long wildflower watercolour panel I suggested we use it to cover up the stain.  Eventually I'll get round to putting a new bit of wood panel in but in the meantime here's our arty solution.

Here's a closer look at the painting itself, or some of it.

We're aboard Herbie for the weekend, doing odd jobs.  One I'm not looking forward to is fitting our new stern button fender, which will require me bending or lying down struggling with rusty old  shackles to get the old button off whilst hoping my glasses don't fall off into the water.  At least the sun is shining today, a rare occurrence lately.