A couple of weeks ago two lovely ginger ladies joined our family. Betty and Delilah are ex barn hens, rescued by Give A Hen A Home. They’ve settled in really well, although somewhat to our surprise they’re absolutely in charge and bossing our existing six hens around. It has been lovely watching them enjoy their […]
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I’m really pleased to have finally opened the virtual doors of my new Etsy shop, WyreBird Studio. I will be selling my sculptures here. For now I have a selection of my small bird sculptures made from up-cycled cutlery, and three of my new steel sculptures made using a water jet cutting process; see Mrs
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Hello, thought I’d write down a few tips for sketching trees. The biggest difficulty when sketching trees, either from photos and particularly when outdoors, is how to simplify without resorting to stereotype and your drawing becoming cartoon like. You definitely need to avoid attempting to draw every leaf and branch, yet you should aim to
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I hope this might interest people during this strange and worrying time of the coronavirus epidemic. I drew this during my toddler’s naptime; I am not claiming it is a perfect drawing or even a particularly good one, however, I enjoyed the focus and drawing is a wonderful way to distract yourself from your thoughts.
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I’m currently showing my work at Pittenweem Arts Festival, in venue 82. Ovenstone 109 is a fledgling brewery and lovely new festival venue which opened this year – formerly a John Deere tractor showroom – (my siblings and I used to enjoy passing by!) Here’s some photos. There are 11 other artists and makers exhibiting
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Update: The paintings are for sale here. My exhibition ‘Lune Year’ opens next Saturday at Halton Mill – a series of paintings and drawings of the River Lune since last December, after Storm Desmond. I thought it might be nice to put them all online as a gallery. So here they are 🙂 or rather, this
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A small watercolour sketch of four pansies. Painted at my Art in the Park class in the Ashton Memorial yesterday. Perched on top of the hill with the wind howling around us, it felt like February not May. The class were practising watercolour techniques, it is our aim to get back outside sketching if/when spring
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I’m opening my studio on Saturday 29th November – come along and have a blether with me and some of my fellow artists at Halton Mill . Original artwork and limited edition prints available as well as the chance to browse beautiful hand-made gifts at the craft fair. The mill will be open between 11 am – 5 pm and all
Meet the artists at Halton Mill, Sat 29th November Read More »
Just been planning for the next term of my art classes at Williamson Park and my studio at Halton Mill. Here’s the flyers. The classes begin the second week of September.
Autumn 2014 art classes Read More »