I recently completed a set of experimental small prints that I have been working on for a little while. The idea was to quickly work on a lot of small prints with some basic shapes and forms to see how different colours would interact when printed over each other. Not having played much with colour [...]

Well it has been a busy first few weeks for me at the Ochre Print Studio as their new artist in residence. There is a studio linked exhibition later in the summer and so I have been trying to prepare work for that while also experimenting a bit. So my trials with overlaying colours are [...]

Last week I got some exciting news when I found out that I had been selected as the new Artist in Residence at the Ochre Print Studio in Guildford. I have been making work at the studio over the last few months, learning screen printing and adapting some of the drawings to print. However having [...]

It has been a while since I have had the chance to write, catching up on so many things but a month ago I had a day in London to catch the Jerwood Drawing Prize before it left town. Having entered myself , unsuccessfully, I was curious to see what had been selected. Sometimes I [...]

Last month my husband and I visited Northern California for a couple of weeks. A great trip we were able to take in a few places and see a wide range of different things. We started in San Francisco, home of cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. Also their own Modern Art Museum [...]

I came across this word recently and had no idea what it meant. Looking it up I discovered that it meant finding meaning in random and meaningless data or phenomenon. So on one level it is reading connections between events and then believing them to be the result of say the paranormal. However on a [...]

Last week I went along to the Summer Show at the Royal Academy. It is one of those things that somehow you are never quite sure what you might find which makes it interesting. This year there seemed to be a certain freshness about it along with some of the old favourites and problems. I [...]

Drawing for me is a calming process, slow and meditative.  The work develops gradually making subtle changes as the work grows. Printing provides a different experience giving both joy and frustration as there is often an element of surprise as the work develops.  I had the pleasure of being able to work for 3 days [...]

Wow, the last few weeks have flown past, the degree show, a London show and joining Newbloodart and the first few sales of work. So am I now an artist? Starting career number two. Such labels rarely help yourself they are more for other people. I just know it has been a great time after [...]