The sheer scope of Matisse’s paintings fascinate me, so it was a delight to enrol in an online School of Painting course to really apply my brain to learn more. Taught by Alice Mumford, whose passion is interior and still life work, […]
Recently The Metaverse has been bothering me. There’s a lot of chat about it in Virtual Reality circles, but I think scaring people with suggestions of strangers in vibrating pants is a bit alarmist. We need more good people in The Metaverse. Please join the good guys.
Artists invited to submit portraits of the Queen to join exhibition to celebrate Platinum Jubilee
I’ve entered three of my Shetland charcoal landscapes for the April Boldbrush Art Contest. As you may know, these charcoals were drawn on gorgeously textured hand-made paper during my recent residency on Shetland. Whenever I was out and about on […]
The first side of my painting has been critiqued in our last university critique. The painting was overally apprecciated and lead to people having various thoughts about it. From reading my notes from that day, the fact that I painted […]
Public Art & interpretation project
It was still and sunny when Buttercup the Beetle and I parked up. We positioned ourselves so that I could see everything clearly, and within minutes the heavens opened and Buttercup was being rocked gently by a not-so-gentle gust. Looking […]
It’s a day of witnessing the sky and water in intense communication. One pouring forth and the other accommodating the outpouring. The land and islands around Whiteness Voe bearing witness to pure nature. Whiteness Voe, Shetland Charcoal on handmade paper […]
So that’s a sketchbook filled! A wintry wander round the docks, steps and slipways of Scalloway, Shetland. You’ll find the blogposts for the drawings if you select either Shetland Residency or Sketchbook Project in the topics menu above, and here’s […]
I’ve decided to celebrate life drawings as my theme for my March Boldbrush art contest entries. Life drawing is the practice that underpins all of my artwork and it was such a relief to find a way of continuing online […]
Every month I enter the Boldbrush Art Contest. This blog shows my entries and the links to vote.
Thank you in advance for voting, each one makes such a difference :)
These are my final Scalloway drawings as I continued round the harbour, out of the village centre and towards the marina: The view over the harbour towards East Voe and Trondra from a slipway between West Shore and Scalloway marina. […]
