The rain is pattering down, soft, almost silent. My windows and door are open to the humid, early autumn air, filling the house with the...

The day dawned in typical early-Autumn fashion: rain showers interspersed with bursts of brilliant sunshine. I needed to leave early to...

I've finished the exercise, working back into the black and silver underpainting with black and white. Here is the video: It's been a...

Artists hate waste! We squirrel away scraps of paper, offcuts of fabric, failed paintings, bits of thread, rust — you name it, we'll...

Ocean life is at risk from pollution of all kinds. But one of the most insidious risks comes from ghost nets – fishing nets that have...

I've just completed another abstract painting and documented the stages in a short video. But in this post, I would like to discuss my...

Sometimes, we need to get away from the studio, take a drive, and see what other artists are doing! Today, a friend and I drove up to...

It's wonderful to be painting again after a long break. Writing the Children of Myth trilogy absorbed my life for a very long time, and...

Recently, I've been leafing through my old art journals, collating images. I'm doing this, not only so I don't have half-a-dozen...

The Art Journal is a wonderful invention - a place to document ideas, develop techniques, and even purge the emotions! I've started...