Blogs

  • Stream

    Stream

    This oil pastel piece is a spontaneous drawing I completed yesterday. I used the colours I love the most and just let my imagination go, rather than worrying as I often do, about making my drawing look like something I’m drawing from life.   Read more

  • Forest of Birches

    Forest of Birches

    This is the first pastel and ink work I ever did, pastel background then black ink over the top and scratched into to make the image. It’s another image I keep coming back to in different media, I love trees and groups of trees like this are majestic. Read more

  • Recurring Dream

    Recurring Dream

    This painting is an image that’s been in my mind since I was very young. I used to have a recurring dream about a hall (possibly school assembly hall?) that was completely empty except for a little girl standing on her own. I wonder if this was a dream about loneliness or being overwhelmed. After listening Read more

  • Looking Up -Black, White and Red

    A2 image with masking tape, charcoal, chalk and acrylic paint. Read more

  • My beautiful Nan

    My beautiful Nan

    This is a pencil drawing of my Nan, drawn with a huge amount of love. It’s taken from a passport photo of her taken I’m guessing when she was about 30-35.   Read more

  • Three Tree Prints

    Three Tree Prints

    I really enjoy linocuts. These three prints are my experiments with colour from the same linocut based on the ‘Looking Up’ tree composition. Read more