We all Cast Shadows at Focus Gallery, Nottingham

I was so happy to get some of my daily portraits from June and July (really? was it that long ago?) framed up for my latest exhibition at the Focus Gallery in Nottingham. Honestly, when I was creating those portraits it was a way back into me creating art again after...

Life Book 2016 Blog Hop & Give Away!

~ I have some wonderful & exciting news to share with you! I am so honoured to have been invited to teach on Life Book 2016  next year! I have heard many incredible things about Life Book from previous years and with 23 talented and experienced teachers I know...

More Conte Portraits

I wish I was a multi-tasker but as it turns out I am far from it. One thing becomes the focus and so inevitably other things fall by the wayside for a while and picked up again once the busyness has lessened. But accepting some of my quirks is a pathway to me moving...

Registration now open for Drawn to Expression

I am delighted to let you know that Registration is now open for Drawn to Expression. You can read more about the course here on my Art School Website and you can purchase the course here in my online store. To make it easier for folks overseas I have just now...

New e-course and a prize draw!

Just a reminder that registration opens for my brand new Expressive Drawing Course tomorrow Monday 3rd August. As there are limited places available on the course I will be opening up half the places at 9am London time and the other half of the places at 3 pm London...

Continuing on in Conté …..

So the conte portraits continue on … I just really wanted to thank you all for continuing to be interested in this daily practice of mine and the art that I am creating. Blogging for me is a strange thing and I have let months go sometimes between one post and...

New portraits for this month.

As promised I wanted to blog my first Conté portraits for July as I work through the challenge of creating one for every day of the month (not necessarily one every day as the last three have gone in the bin!) As with any daily practice there are up’s and downs...

New material – new daily portraits for July

I began another series of daily portraits last week – planning again, to do one for every day this month of July but switching to a different material this time. I wanted to do something that would be a bit quicker than painting as I have lots of other work to...

What my current daily practice is teaching me.

“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection.”  Toba Beta Considering where I was in terms of ‘getting to the easel’ little more than a month ago, it might feel a little premature to be talking about how this daily...
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