Tag: painting

  • The Other Side of Summer

    The Other Side of Summer

    30th September 2016 It’s been a busy Summer and it’s nice to come out the other side and reflect on the events that have influenced my artwork and small steps that I’ve made, and to stand back and look at what has gone well. It’s easy to get caught up sometimes in day to day…

  • Do You Know Your Needs?

    Do You Know Your Needs?

    3rd June 2016 I haven’t blogged for a while, but this topic came up in conversation yesterday, and it’s something which has been on my mind recently. We’re brought up to share, to be with others, to socialise, to fit in, to obey rules about what we can and cannot do and that becomes so…

  • Happy New Year to Madeline

    Happy New Year to Madeline

    7th January 2016 Meet Madeline! She’s the first of a series of funky faces in acrylics that I’ll be working on over the next few weeks. Madeline’s pretty important because she takes me back to my late teens when I predominantly drew people, faces and clothes. I’d actually been offered a place at art college to…

  • Having a Plan!

    Having a Plan!

    5th November 2015 It’s now been a year and a half since I started taking my art seriously, and by that I mean painting more, sketching more, showing people what I am working on and the finished product. It has also meant setting up an Etsy shop, putting my writing on one side (in my…

  • Mixing It Up!

    Mixing It Up!

    26th May 2015 Three months into a house move that has yet to actually happen, I am trying to get on with life as normal, ignoring the boxes and the overall appearance that my house has just been burgled, and throwing myself into a variety of arty stuff! For my latest piece – just finished…

  • From St-ART to Finish

    From St-ART to Finish

    From St-ART to finish I’ve written quite a lot about my writing process but very little about the process I go through in creating a painting. I’ll be honest, for me, the painting process is a whole lot easier. There are so many layers to writing from conception, scribbling notes, character and setting development, research,…

  • 30th September 2014

    Happiness is… It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, in fact, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything (not including a diary, which I’ve written since I was fourteen and notes on various English essays, which don’t count!) I’ve been spending a lot more of my free time on my paintings, a thing I…

  • 19th August 2014

    A New Venture   Yes, I have finally taken hold of this thing that I have been sitting on for far too long – the thing that involves paint and brushes and big canvases and quite a bit of mess and hours and hours of complete absorption and pleasure. It’s strange how even when we…

  • 15th July 2014

    ‘The Walk’ Time is a thing that can slip away easily or be filled with things that seem inadequate or unfulfilling. Aren’t we all trying to address that in some way? How often do we find ourselves doing things we have to do rather than things we want to do? It’s easy to fall into…

  • 26th October 2012

    Breaking my Blog and Blogging about my Break! I have decided to have a blog break for a while, and have been kind of putting off this post as I didn’t really want to.  After almost a year and a half of weekly blogging, breaking off from it felt like taking a step backwards somehow. …