I’ll be at the best little print fair in the UK again this year. Taking place at the Coronation Hall in Ulverston, Cumbria, with around 40 printmakers offering their art, plus workshops and talks, it’s a lovely way to spend the Bank Holiday, if you’re print inclined, and a brilliant excuse to visit one…
I’ve decided to give my subscribers first dibs (and free shipping) on my new collection of prints, before I take what remains to Printfest between 1st and 3rd May. I’ll be releasing them on 20th April. If you’d like to see them first, join my list here.
If, like me, you sometimes need a gentle push to get back into your art practice at the start of a new year, then you might find yourself turning to an ‘art challenge’. I see nothing wrong with taking a little nudge to get the creative engine running again – they are actually a…
Can you remember what it was like only 5 years ago, certainly 10 years ago? It’s so easy to think life was always like this. I’m specifically going to talk about how we learn, in this blog, and how that’s changed dramatically over the last few years (for good and ill…) Lockdown really changed…
I will be at the BPC print fair at The Chocolate Factory, at CentreSpace studios, 6 Leonard Lane, Bristol on 14th February, alongside a stellar line up of South West based printmakers. I’ll have lots of new artwork (as I haven’t done any events for a while!) These print fairs are small and good,…
This month has seen me start the year…small. And I’m OK with that. In fact, I think there are seasons for small art in our practice and to lean into them when they come. Some of you may know that I oscillate between urges to make massive loose artworks, and urges to make jewel…
I do love the feeling of new beginnings and my tendency to plan (and buy stationery to plan in/on) goes into overdrive around this time of year. But it’s also an inward time. A time to remember and celebrate. To calibrate, to dream, to anticipate. And so I find myself hovering between plunging…
I have written before about my dislike of the leaving of the light at this time of year. The idea and philosophy of Wabi-sabi allows me to enjoy the quality of light (if not quantity), the small things each day, the spare, simple and stark- in short, the pleasures of winter. I’ve always been…
I’m a big fan of constraints and I have a feeling most printmakers are (secretly or otherwise). Printmaking has a built in set of constraints (some techniques more than others), that you immediately need to work around and with, maybe even learn to love, sometimes finding something new by pushing against them as far…
‘There is no such thing as a copy really. Everything is just a translation of something else.’ David Hockney Three things influencing this blog post: Reading ‘Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy’ (by Martin Gayford), visiting the Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition and having to choose a piece of art…