Why … Paint?
I could stare at this for hours. Paint entrances me and always has. It takes my hand and leads me into an alternate dimension. An alternate dimension where my
Do you know your creative process?
Do you know how you arrive at the blank page, the blank canvas, the empty stave, the empty stage? Every artist has a process. No matter what the art, we all
“A painting is never finished …
“A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places” is a quote by Paul Gardner and is one of my favourites. Doesn’t this zero in on the crux
What’s in a Year …
I’ve been on a break. Paintings have been left in flux … This blog has been silent … But it hasn’t felt like a break. In fact it has felt
i can see the sea! i can see the sea!
My grandparents lived on the coast in Devon and many a summer holiday was spent on the beaches there. We would trundle down, me and my sisters bouncing about in
I want to live in Turquoise …
‘I saw these and thought of you’ were the words that accompanied these spine-tinglingly turquoise earrings, popped unexpectedly through my door by a generous and insightful friend. BECAUSE TURQUOISE IS
Betrayed with a Kiss …
At the end of last year I went to see the ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ exhibition at the National Gallery in London. It was woefully disappointing *. (In the afternoon I went to
