Welcome to my Splog! This is where a splurge of thought meets a blog, hence Splog! It could as easily have been a Thlog - thoughts mixed...

How to survive the Holidays, keep your artistic flow and feed your creative soul. I truly hope this message finds you well and enjoying...

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...

Connection is the word that keeps coming back to me of late. Maybe world circumstances are triggering nostalgia but it's certainly a...

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...

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...

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...

In my previous professional life I did a tonne of leadership training and regularly completed questionnaires which professed to identify...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This morning I gave myself permission to go down an artistic rabbit hole. As our movements are restricted at the moment a virtual...

You won’t always be motivated, so you have to be disciplined - Leanne Hainsby Certain words can make me uncomfortable, and discipline is...

25th Jan 2021 Lewis Noble is a prolific abstract and expressive UK artist who regularly posts videos of his art making on Youtube,...

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...

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...

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...