Delighted to have been selected as a Full Fellowship Member of the Dorset Artists Guild. The Dorset Artists Guild is a community of professional artists based in and around Wimborne. Focused on both social and professional connections, members collaborate, exhibit together, and support one another in their creative practice. Through exhibitions and networking, the Guild…
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Five brilliant days in February touring fabulous south Wales, urban sketching in five different market towns; Abergavenny, Brecon, Hay-on-Wye, Monmouth & Chepstow.This is snapshot of a wonderful, but very cold and grey van trip… #urbansketchers #urbansketching #hayonwye #chepstow #monmouth #abergavenny #brecon The video below is a summary of all five videos created on each days’…
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I just love making art outdoors in the cool and subdued weather of winter. Today I am in Wimborne, experimenting with my looser approach. I’m looking to add to my ‘Peeping Minster’ series and also to develop my more impressionistic style. This small painting is a dress-rehearsal for the final, 40x40cm canvas. Today was freezing…
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Today, I have been reprinting this ‘Noël’ Linocut for a batch of Christmas cards to feature with my new Wimborne-themed paintings at the @otterartistssociety Pop Up event; Friday 29th & Saturday 30th November. See you there! 🎄 🍷 🥧 🎶 The Otter Gallery will be open late on Saturday the 30th November for mince pies…
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A perfect day for Urban Sketching – a sunny and busy Salisbury Market Square. My Urban Sketching group, Urban Sketchers Bournemouth & Poole, travelled to Salisbury, Wiltshire today – and what a gorgeous day it turned out to be! We were blessed with sunshine, relative warmth and a bustling city centre. Salisbury, a medieval city…
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I’m really enjoying painting en plein air. I’ve found I can no longer settle to studio painting quite so easily – now that I have the taste for painting in the great outdoors! Discovering plein air painting Having really made a real effort to get out and about with painting, so far in 2024, I…
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