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Just taken down my work at Norwich Print Fair. It's been quite a busy two weeks. This was my tenth year and after a couple of year lack lustre responses from visitors this year has been explosive! I sold 14 of my new monoprints ranging in size from 12c m up to 60cm....

Whilst I always put a positive spin on making art anyone who does it will know it's mostly an uphill climb. You spend days or weeks pushing paint around, scraping it off, rebuilding until it begins to show signs of life...and then invariably you kill it off just after...

Back in UK and off to Cornwall for a week long residency at Cape Cornwall. I took more kit than anyone would need but set myself FOUR challenges 1. To not make final outcomes 2. To play as much as possible with Mark-making 3. To leave the audience at the door 4. To...

Luckily it rained most of March so I managed to get a lot of work done for the Art Walk in Competa. I decided to make lots a new things...some smaller circles and experiment further with encaustic. I took the large painting from Motril and sold it on the first...

I went on a two day encaustic workshop in Brighton. Lovely media...layers, colours, embedding what's not to like! Unfortunately the tutor used a mix with paraffin wax which I've since found out creates lots of smoke..and we made work on non-absorbent surfaces..so may...

I met Emma Plunket at Easter 2017 when I took part in the Cómpeta Art Walk. She contacted me during the Summer to say she was inviting artists to take part in an exhibition and would I be interested? Little did I know how amazing the venue she found would be....the...

 I wanted to write about how my solo show went this summer. Putting together a solo show is an amazing experience, it pushes an artist to delve deep, to reflect and respond. It can also be a bridge between past creative practices and future ones. When I began the...

I have always loved small square prints....and beer, and beer mats. So it seemed natural to combine these loves.....minus the beer of course, and make collagraphy from beer mats. This is the second batch, the first ones were fine but lacked the detail I...

Just taken down my work at Norwich Print Fair. It's been quite a busy two weeks. This was my tenth year and after a couple of year lack lustre responses from visitors this year has been explosive! I sold 14 of my new monoprints ranging in size from 12c m up to 60cm....

Whilst I always put a positive spin on making art anyone who does it will know it's mostly an uphill climb. You spend days or weeks pushing paint around, scraping it off, rebuilding until it begins to show signs of life...and then invariably you kill it off just after...

Back in UK and off to Cornwall for a week long residency at Cape Cornwall. I took more kit than anyone would need but set myself FOUR challenges 1. To not make final outcomes 2. To play as much as possible with Mark-making 3. To leave the audience at the door 4. To...

Luckily it rained most of March so I managed to get a lot of work done for the Art Walk in Competa. I decided to make lots a new things...some smaller circles and experiment further with encaustic. I took the large painting from Motril and sold it on the first...

I went on a two day encaustic workshop in Brighton. Lovely media...layers, colours, embedding what's not to like! Unfortunately the tutor used a mix with paraffin wax which I've since found out creates lots of smoke..and we made work on non-absorbent surfaces..so may...

I met Emma Plunket at Easter 2017 when I took part in the Cómpeta Art Walk. She contacted me during the Summer to say she was inviting artists to take part in an exhibition and would I be interested? Little did I know how amazing the venue she found would be....the...

 I wanted to write about how my solo show went this summer. Putting together a solo show is an amazing experience, it pushes an artist to delve deep, to reflect and respond. It can also be a bridge between past creative practices and future ones. When I began the...

I have always loved small square prints....and beer, and beer mats. So it seemed natural to combine these loves.....minus the beer of course, and make collagraphy from beer mats. This is the second batch, the first ones were fine but lacked the detail I...