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New Work in the Sculpture Lounge Summer Exhibition 2024

New Work in the Sculpture Lounge Summer Exhibition 2024

The Sculpture Lounge Summer Exhibition 2024 is Open! I’m delighted to be involved again...
Meet The Locals 2022 at Fronteer Gallery

Meet The Locals 2022 at Fronteer Gallery

2022 is kicking off with a new exhibition and a new gallery. It's my first time showing...
Tarpey Gallery Open 2021

Tarpey Gallery Open 2021

Stuck for something to do this weekend? If you fancy indulging in some fantastic art, ...
The Many Facets of a Landscape

The Many Facets of a Landscape

As I struggled with the painting over a week, and then through 2 weeks, I discovered that within the landscape were all these snapshot views-within-views...
The Sculpture Lounge Summer Exhibition 2021

The Sculpture Lounge Summer Exhibition 2021

The Sculpture Lounge Summer Exhibition 2021 is hurtling towards its final weekend. I'm ...
Instant Gratification and Something to Look Forward To

Instant Gratification and Something to Look Forward To

The Cooper Prize 2021 exhibition is now online! But I'm really looking forward to May w...
The Cooper Prize 2021

The Cooper Prize 2021

There's something I've wanted to share for about a month now, but I've only just been g...
Revised New Light Art Prize 2021 Touring Exhibition Dates

Revised New Light Art Prize 2021 Touring Exhibition Dates

Despite restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic—closed galleries, and heavy restricti...
A Painting about Wind Turbines and NIMBYs

A Painting about Wind Turbines and NIMBYs

I painted NIMBY in December 2020, after we had the first snow of the winter. It made the extraordinary turbines look even more magical against the striking whited-out landscape.

Painting in the Time of Lockdown

Painting in the Time of Lockdown

Amongst enduring all the Lockdown idiocy of panic-buying toilet roll, and anxiety about getting ill, I whirred with excitement, energy....
Shortlisted for the New Light Art Prize Exhibition 2020/21

Shortlisted for the New Light Art Prize Exhibition 2020/21

Sundown in Isolation and Edge are the two paintings that will be touring the UK as part of the biennial New Light Art Prize exhibition 2020-21.

On Walking, Photos and Inspiration

On Walking, Photos and Inspiration

With life being a bit busy of late, last week I realised I hadn't been out walking with...
Why Roadworks Gave Me a Change of Direction

Why Roadworks Gave Me a Change of Direction

One drenched, gloomy morning a few weeks ago, we found ourselves on a rural-lane-detour...
Introducing 'Sanctuary'

Introducing 'Sanctuary'

Sanctuary was the first oil painting I worked on in Lockdown in 2020, using our conser...
A (Virtual) Tour around the New Studio

A (Virtual) Tour around the New Studio

So we're in! It’s been a lengthy, drawn-out process (my god, has it been drawn out), bu...
How I Opened a Pandora's Box of Oil Paint

How I Opened a Pandora's Box of Oil Paint

There's something so voluptuous and immersive in the texture of the buttery paint, the heady, intoxicating aroma of linseed oil and turpentine...

Adventures in Ceramics #2 — How to Use Glazes

Adventures in Ceramics #2 — How to Use Glazes

Here's a blow-by-blow account of our mammoth glazing weekend —so if you're trying it for the first time you can get some tips. And if you have absolutely no intention of ever going near ceramics and you're just wondering why on earth I am, you can just read it and chuckle to yourself.
Adventures in Ceramics #1 — Making and Bisque Firing

Adventures in Ceramics #1 — Making and Bisque Firing

As a complete ceramics novice, this post is the first installment of our messy and exciting crash course in clay, glazing and all things pottery. This one's about our first ever kiln firing!

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