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Developing My Painting Style
You don't know how far you've come until you look back at where you've been! I started painting in January 2020. Initially, as I found my...
Apr 17, 20226 min read
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Studio Shenanigans - Fruitcake to Podcast!
Connection is the word that keeps coming back to me of late. Maybe world circumstances are triggering nostalgia but it's certainly a...
Mar 14, 20223 min read
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On the Hunt for Great Women Artists
Today, as I write this is International Women's day and it struck me as a feminist and a woman, I ought to mark the day with a little...
Mar 7, 20223 min read
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I Wonder What Would Happen If...........
January 2022 is going to be a month of exploration - a New Year’s gift to myself. No pressure to complete paintings and minimal time...
Dec 27, 20213 min read
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5 Things a collector needs to known when buying art
My Grandma once advised me to ‘try before you buy!’ I thought it quite racy at the time as she was referring to having a few boyfriends...
Nov 10, 20214 min read
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The Uncomfortable Power of Connection
In my previous professional life I did a tonne of leadership training and regularly completed questionnaires which professed to identify...
Oct 3, 20214 min read
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Abstracting the landscape - getting my paintings to say what I want them to?
Abstracting the landscape is my conundrum, it’s also my job. Translating the scene before me is a thrill when it goes well, but is not...
Sep 24, 20212 min read
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A Most Unusual Artist Tool- Using a note book to develop my artist voice!
I spend a lot of time thinking about translating the landscape in ‘my way’. What I mean by that is that as a developing artist the...
Sep 16, 20212 min read
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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! Lessons from an Open Studio
I can't quite believe it’s only just over a year since I decided to make painting my full time job. I had just finished my access course...
Sep 5, 20216 min read
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Fancy a cuppa? The art of the teabag
I love a good cuppa and I am the first to admit that I am a rather fussy tea drinker. I insist on it being strong but not stewed, the bag...
Jul 7, 20212 min read
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Literary Collage - I’m a poet and I didn’t have to try too hard!
This morning I gave myself permission to go down an artistic rabbit hole. As our movements are restricted at the moment a virtual...
Mar 29, 20213 min read
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Cheating discipline - I’d rather cheat than sit in a basement in my undies!
You won’t always be motivated, so you have to be disciplined - Leanne Hainsby Certain words can make me uncomfortable, and discipline is...
Feb 10, 20216 min read
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Mind the Gap
25th Jan 2021 Lewis Noble is a prolific abstract and expressive UK artist who regularly posts videos of his art making on Youtube,...
Jan 24, 20214 min read
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Don't judge a book by its cover - Old book, new tricks
January 17th 2021 Who doesn’t love the crisp white pages of a new note book? That start of Term feeling you get from a pristine cover and...
Jan 18, 20213 min read
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Why do I bother? Its happened - I sound like my mother!
4th January2021 Its happened - I sound like my mother! I’m not quite at the stage of ‘you treat this place like a hotel’ but when faced...
Jan 3, 20213 min read
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The most important blog post!
29th December 2020 Funny old thing the universe! This morning I opened my daily email from @sethgodin.com and this is how he started: The...
Dec 30, 20203 min read
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