Since moving house last year a new space to paint has been much needed. I left a Georgian town house- massive rooms, high ceilings and loads of windows to inhabit a Victorian terrace two up two down. Whilst I love the new place (amazing views and a garden) it lacks a suitable space for painting, both […]
Just before Christmas I visited Sheffield. It’s a city which boasts some of it’s own wonderful art collections but on this occasion I travelled further north still, to Leeds. My ‘travelling companions’ and I, were on a pilgrimage to see Grayson Perry’s tapestries ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’ at Temple Newsam , a Tudor Jacobean house […]
Here are 2 paintings I’ve started as part of my ‘flood’ project. I regularly travel through the Somerset levels and the Exe flood plain where water and land are often fighting each other for supremacy. Like many artists, I’m interested in capturing the transience of light and water. Both Devon and Somerset offer great opportunities […]