My Day 4 drawing in charcoal, black ink and pastel A couple of weeks ago, I attended a lovely 4 day art course at Paintbox School of Art in Cockenzie near Edinburgh. The tutor was the lovely Kittie Jones whose work I have seen and admired for a long time. I do love these small scale art education enterprises which seem to offer a great learning experience for a fraction of the cost of an art degree. I used to run Horsley Printmakers which held printmaking courses for many yea

If you've followed my creative progress for a while, you'll know that I've been experimenting with paint and collage alongside my...

The last eighteen months have been an exciting journey of discovery for me as I've experimented with paint and collage. I feel I've come...

People often ask, "How do you find your own artistic style?" I believe that style is a product of all the things you love - the subject...

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...

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