Drawn to Trees
Moleskine and Blackwing Pencil sketch As the weather warmed up, I began taking my sketchbook and my favourite pencil and doing a quick(ish) drawing each time I walked there. I have drawn outside with all sorts of materials in the past, but time and time again I come...
A New Pathway
Winter trees – haunting guardians It has been a joy to explore the small area of woodland when I could only venture a short way from home due to lockdown and physical restrictions. Walking there a few times a week, it is a corner of our area that is so beautiful...
Walking Through Lockdown
Pathway through the woodland When we moved to Northumberland four and half years ago our hearts led us to the sea. Every day out and small adventure was to the coast. The beautiful beaches and harbour villages. On other days we explored castles and coffee shops. We...
New Studio!!
The Old Bath House Studios – back in the warmer months! The last few months have been a whirlwind of creating my newest online course Gathering the Landscape which involved lots of filming sketching outdoors in and around our unpredictable British...
Slowing down – Sketching a thousand moments in time
It’s been a busy year so far both in the studio and with the other elements of my practice such as the Building a Body of Work programme. I adore what I do and time just speeds by! I am sure many of us experience the same feelings of ‘what should I be thinking about...
Making progress – Working on unfinished paintings
I make lots and lots of ‘starts’ when painting. I love having lots of in-progress pieces around my studio and having lots of options as to what to work with on any given day. I have worked like this for a while but I find that it particularly suits my main mediums of...
Relics of departed days – Process of a painting
I don’t expect to be blogging in such detail about every single piece of art I create (that could get a little boring right?) But every so often a painting leads me on a twisty turny path and it is interesting for me to look back at the stages that went before. I have...
Amongst the towering trees – Process of a painting
There is nothing like a deadline to either get me panicking and/or get me moving. Sometimes this can lead to overwhelming defeat despite putting the hours in. Sometimes it can give me just the right push to work in a new way and try something a little (or a lot) out...
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