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
The True Spirit of Christmas
A Glimpse of Christmas. I want to share with you one of my favourite works of Renaissance art by the sculptor who I consider to be the greatest figurative sculptor
