Some Resources For Watercolour Students
Watercolour painting is great fun. Paints are relatively inexpensive and can be easily carried, allowing you to paint inside or outdoors. Watercolour painting is great fun. Paints are relatively inexpensive and can be easily carried, allowing you to paint inside or outdoors. You can make good paintings with a few as six colours, two or […]
Back on Dry Land
We are back in the UK a little earlier than planned, as a family crisis meant flying back from Palma, Majorca. Thank you to the Entertainment staff on board for being so helpful and those who attended my classes, for being sympathetic and understanding. It was quite a challenge using our last morning and afternoon […]
My Garden Studio
I wrote this blog about ten years ago, but it was lost when my web-site was updated. I have had plenty of use from my studio, as you can see from my gallery and exhibition pages and from other various blogs. It has not been without its challenges and If I was to do it […]
Some thoughts on JMW Turner
I did write some thoughts on Turner ages ago, when I had just seen the movie and the exhibition, but it seems not to have published! Let’s try again. First the movie, Mr. Turner. Some of the cinematography was stunning, as was the central performance from Timothy Spall, but I was disappointed by the lack […]
A short break in North Devon
I know I promised to keep my blog updated in my one and only previous post, but I haven’t been able to get into it – still some web-site teething troubles. I haven’t been completely idle though. A short break in North Devon found me staring into rock pools again. They are complete little worlds […]
Rocks and Flowers Exhibition
Every so often I put myself through this and it has got me thinking, why? We daubers and scribblers live fairly isolated lives. Unlike actors or musicians, we work alone and only those near and dear to us normally get to see our efforts. They tend to be kind in their evaluation of our work […]
Busy times …
It has been a busy time of late, but I have enjoyed every minute of it. In my previous life as Arts Development Officer in Cheltenham, I attended a meeting at the Everyman Theatre to plan activities and events to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI. I suggested, at the time that we […]
My First Blog
Well here goes… Welcome to my first blog…..ever…..and it’s on my new website. I’m so excited! I hope you like the site – please leave me a message on the CONTACT page if you do. “I will try to write regular stuff on here, now that I am a full time artist, at last. I […]