Category: Painting

Continuing to tidy my photo library, remember things, and to see which images I like the most. The following photographs were taken during autumn 2025. Similar posts:Gently Out Of TimeWinter and Spring 25/26 PhotographsSome Travel Photographs. India Some Summer Photographs Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and Around Paris Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection London Eating and Drinking

I spent some time this week looking through and tidying another section of my photo library. I revisited the period of winter and spring 25/26 to see what had caught my eye at the time. Recent similar posts:Some Summer Photographs Some Travel Photographs. India Gently Out Of Time Rain Pubs, Clubs and Cafes Abandoned Walls…

Friday 2nd October 2026 A wonderfully busy, buzzing Open Studio day, with my Studio Fridays mentees and visitors having valuable conversations about art practice, the artwork on display and work in progress.

First lesson teaching after the long summer break. Warming students up with four, fast paced, 20 minute challenges. Drawing on screens to capture the perspective of the studio space. Students sat behind a glass screen, keeping their body and head very still, closed one eye, and traced the room on to the screen using a…

North Pennines The long, hot, dry summer has been lovely! It started off with half a term in the studio, teaching and painting, followed by taking over the whole studio to paint in for duration of the summer break, punctuated with some short trips away; five days driving up to Northumberland, taking in the Yorkshire…

I send out email newsletters each week during term time, sharing some of the creative things I come across day to day in my world of art and art education. If you’d like to receive them hot off the press each week to your inbox, you can sign up here. Newsletters from September 2026 onwards…

We’ve come to the end of yet another lovely term of teaching on Wednesdays, where students of all abilities come to enjoy the studio, and to learn more about painting and drawing. Whereas half of the sessions each term are given to teacher led workshops, challenging students outside of their comfort zones, the other half…

Here’s a list of places to head to if you’re looking for a few days away on the south east coast, where you can catch the sea breeze, and a bit of art too. The list goes from east to west, and if like me you live in London, they are all just a couple…