Top Carrot!
“Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same.” – Jeremy Goldberg To enter an…
Everything including the kitchen sink!
My new course on watercolours begins next week. Titled, ‘Watercolour Essentials,’ it’s going to cover all the things you really…
An Enchanted Eye and Hand
The last six lessons of my online course, Watercolour A to Z, began with the letter U and that fundamental…
Still life, still important
‘With an apple, I shall astonish Paris.’ Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) I received an email with a link to a…
Life, Death and Art
You may have heard of the Pitmen Painters. In 2007, Lee Hall’s play made them quite famous, both in the…
The Painter of the Future
We’re 10% of the way through 2023, but still feeling the chill of winter, of course, so I hope the…
Seeing and Feeling
Oskar Kokoschka, Polperro II (1938) Kokoschka’s lively composition is loaded with juicy brushstrokes. Under his impetuous hand, the clouds race…
“The Art Itself is Nature”
At the end of last year, I wrote a post about Diane Duyser, who made headlines when she saw the…
A Busman’s Holiday
This summer, during the worst of the British heatwave, I was in Madeira, where the sun rises late and its…