

SUNDAY WORKSHOP May 18th - Re-interpreting a well known painting.
It's been very common for artists to choose a well known work of art an re-interpret it in their own style. Picasso was a master at this....


Some posts are no longer in order...
I accidentally deleted some and managed to retrieve a few but everything is back out of order...Computer thumbs!! Anyway here's a picture...


Japan is looking as lovely as ever...
Having a lovely time, great to see the family - very changeable weather, hot & sunny, cold and wet! We're just in time for the cherry...


Last of Japan, first of Hong Kong...
We travelled south from Osaka on the bullet trains at about 200mph ( fantastic trains) to a dedicated art island, Naoshima, staying in...


South Africa
I'm sorry to have missed the snow a 2nd time this winter. However swimming in Antarctic-temperature seas makes up for it! A few pics...


Great to see the work that emerged from our landscape project today.
Some of the work still in progress, a lovely day of making working drawings which were then translated into the paintings you see here....


SUNDAY WORKSHOP November 10th Landscape - drawing into painting.
I'm almost home from my amazing road trip! Here is the outline plan of the workshop day below. This workshop day is about the working...


A few more!
Storm Ashley was impressive and luckily mostly blew at night. The weather has been fantastically changeable! Driving horizontal rain,...


Disaster! I think I've deleted all my recent posts! So I'll do a 'last of Japan and first of Hong Kong' and we'll start again from there!!
We travelled south from Osaka on the bullet train at a speed of 200mph to an art island called Naoshima where we stayed in a very typical...


A lovely busy workshop with fantastic results - landscape with a dynamic foreground reference.
I asked my students to choose a landscape image from which to make an initially simple structured drawing. Then they cut out large tree...