Acrylic Painting on wood panel with water-soluble crayons (in progress) Funny title, eh? Let me explain: I've been using a very limited palette in my recent mixed-media paintings. To help me remember, I've come up with this phrase: Lemon = Lemon! (no prizes there!) Meringue = Magenta (my paint tube is Quinachridone Violet but I think of it as magenta) Pie = Payne's Grey (an indispensible alternative to black - it's softer with more blue in it) With = White Cream = Cyan, a coo

Alongside my printmaking, I've been creating these paintings with collage. I do them in the evening at home, away from my studio. Somehow...

Last summer, in our allotment, my husband grew many kinds of poppies - Icelandic, Californian, Shirley, Himalayan - it was a visual feast...

The inspirational landscape seen from Bullclough Art School I've just returned from a wonderful painting course at Bullclough Art School in the Peak District National Park. Now you may have noticed that my previous blog post was about an art course in Yorkshire so I have indulged myself somewhat this summer! But the experience was so, so good that I feel fully justified in investing in my own personal creative development. I can wholeheartedly recommend it as a way to shake u

These mixed-media paintings were made during a five day "Walking and Drawing" course in North Yorkshire with Debbie Loane of Lund Studios. We travelled to some marvellous locations and enjoyed working out of doors - no easels, just on the ground on long pieces of paper folded into a concertina. The shape really suited the wide panorama views of the moors and valleys we were seeing. The fields were a lovely fresh green, with the distinctive dark lines of dry stone walls runnin

From time to time, I share with you photographs from our garden and allotment. They feel like a little piece of heaven when the evening...

When I'm not making art for a living, I love gardening as a hobby. My husband and I both enjoy spending time out of doors pottering in...