Home studio & gallery
It’s been on my mind for a while but the ongoing Covid 19 situation has made me think about going ahead with a home studio… Read More »Home studio & gallery
It’s been on my mind for a while but the ongoing Covid 19 situation has made me think about going ahead with a home studio… Read More »Home studio & gallery
I’m part way into my final major project and I have a solid theme established of a family story from the blitz during WW2. Drawings… Read More »Model making for an installation
Reflecting on your own art practice is an incredibly useful exercise. It forces you to stop and consider how you have crafted your past creative… Read More »Reflection on my art practice
A trip to a London gallery is always overwhelming – world famous art in iconic spaces. Hence we had a one day trip to see… Read More »Lucian Freud, Royal Academy
For a recent project I’ve been experimenting with casting epoxy resin. These pieces were a response to an exhibition called Justice: restraint/constraint at the National… Read More »Resin highs & lows
I managed to get up to Leeds for the Living Exhibition into which I’d entered one of my photographs. The exhibition stipulated that submissions should… Read More »Living exhibition, Leeds
I’ve been sketching people and objects in cafes and bars for about 3 years now and have seen a significant improvement but like many artists… Read More »Looser sketching style
I recently ran my first art workshop up in Sheffield. I’ve run many IT training courses in the past but this was a different type… Read More »Emulsion transfer workshop
We had a trip to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield to see the early works of Alan Davie and David Hockney. The significance of this… Read More »Hockney and Davie, Hepworth, Wakefield
It’s fascinating to put together a timeline of your work in one medium to give a sense of how you are progressing. This is particularly… Read More »Sketching progress
I had a long run around Dovedale, Derbyshire last weekend. It’s a route I often do early in the morning and it keeps mostly to… Read More »A Victorian find in Dovedale
I had a good talk with the curator at the fantastic creative space THiNK in Nottingham a few months ago and she asked me to… Read More »THiNK submission