Making art is good for your health
Yes, there are good reasons to say that making art is good for your health – it’s not a random claim. When I considered learning to paint, 10 years ago, I asked myself what the benefits would be. I grew up being ‘the numbers one’…
Painting Flowers for Inspiration
How lockdown chased my creative mojo away for a while, and how I got it back again by painting flowers for inspiration. Come and join me.
Artists Tools – Beyond the paintbrush
Artists tools are very personal. I’m just talking about tools you would use to apply paint. You may think ‘paintbrush’, and you’d be right. Every artist has their favourite brushes, but that’s not all that can be used to create a painting. So why would…
Cropping a Painting: a studio story
Cropping a painting involves some key aesthetic decisions for the artist. This week I shared my process as I cropped an abstract landscape
A Late-Blooming Artist – This is Me
Being a late-blooming artist is both rewarding and frustrating. The frustration comes from realising how much time you could have had to explore this fantastic visual creative world, if only you had started earlier. The rewarding bit is altogether different. I was once told by…
How to Find Joy in Art
How do we find joy in art? Through a process of exploration and discovery.
Use art to stay connected
It has been tough being out of touch with friends and family during lockdown but some of my friends have found ways to use art to stay connected. Most of us have realised that people are even more important than we ever thought they were…
How to Develop your Art during Lockdown
Are you wondering how to develop your art during lockdown? I think we are all battling to come to terms with a new normal that seemed to happen overnight. We’ve all just been through what is probably the strangest Easter we’ve ever experienced. Our Easter…
3 ways for artists to stay motivated during isolation
3 ways for artists to stay motivated when they are isolated. It can be difficult to stay focused and inspired without connection to other people. Here are some ideas that might help.
7 Steps to Take Your art to the Next Level
Do you want a plan to take your art to the next level in 2020? I certainly do. Art is one of those wonderful pursuits where you’ll never run out of things to learn. The question is what to learn? And how? New Year resolutions…