by Sally | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog
Hope you are well and staying safe. Just to let you know I am planning a series of FREE* online sessions to go out in a couple of weeks. I will be sending an email out to my mailing list, if you reading this you are signed up for my blog you may not be signed up for...
by Sally | Mar 5, 2020 | Blog
As a painter using oil and cold wax medium I am always in the search for tools that create interesting marks and textures. It is important to me to have a range of marks on a piece, to avoid too much similarity as this can lead to a uniform surface that lacks...
by Sally | Feb 16, 2020 | Blog
troll/trɒl,trəʊl/ verb carefully and systematically search an area for something. Under the Postwick viaduct is a small area of urban heaven. The viaduct is about 600 metres long. It forms part of the Norwich southern bypass (which was completed in 1992) and...
by Sally | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog
Jacksons Art store in London asked me to compare the range of Cold Wax Mediums that are available for their blog. I compared them the side by side in various situations as well as completing six small paintings, each using one of the six mediums. Along the way, I...
by Sally Hirst | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog
“Colour moves around until it sits still” Michele Whiting Below are the seven paintings I have been working on, alongside the compositions and/images that fuelled their development. Are they finished? I think so, at least they have stopped talking to me. Nothing...
by Sally | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog
I have had a busy few weeks! In October I exhibited some paintings from last year in an village house here in Spain. Whilst the exhibition was planned, an Art Walk event involving 30+ artists, I had no idea where I would be allocated a space but I found myself in a...
