The course I am attending at the Royal Drawing School in London is inspiring me each week with light-bulb moments. We were asked to draw with our left hand without looking at the paper and without taking the charcoal off […]
i’m supporting a poorly back today by cleaning cupboards and catching up on housework in the kitchen. an at home day. my view through the window fills me with great joy. a monochromatic blue sky backs a splendidly fluid vibrant […]
So things have been very busy recently in the Belton studio. Whilst it has been business as usual in regards to working as intensely as my working life permits me I have also put on my first solo exhibition. It […]
Selected new works 2017 from my on-going mixed media painting series inspired by the landscape of The Chiltern Hills, north of London. All mixed media on paper.
As is usual these days my time has been incredibly stretched by pretty much every element of my life. My day job has been ridiculous and home life (happily) more demanding than ever – throw into the mix feverish activity […]
out of the window this morning i see a flat monochrome sky. in front of it a flat green tree and flat brown bricked buildings. my cup of tea is empty and the puppy is pressed against my right leg. […]
This blog entry reflects on the relationships between walking, thinking and looking in the early stages of my artist residency at Tower Bridge and the resulting impact upon my drawing practice.
I decided to go to the garden later in the day and although my decision had nothing to do with the weather as going later was already part of the plan, it turned out to be very fortuitous as the sun […]
To draw is to take time to pay attention to the presence of something. This drawing is one of a series of metalpoint drawings based on photo booth portraits. My artworks tend to focus on themes to do with memory […]
Drawing made after a recent visit to the Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at Tate Modern and linking this to the UK’s formal withdrawal from the EU.
During my last summer break (2016), I have been travelling around Suffolk, visiting to places, taken pictures, and after having thoughts about what I should do in my next project, I have decide to recreate scenes by drawing them out, […]
‘Margate Landlady’ Work-in-progress. One of a number of silverpoint drawings based on people in an old photograph from Margate. Note: any similarity to any B&B owners currently living in Margate or Cliftonville is purely coincidental.
Last year I was given a gopro for my birthday, ostensibly to attach to the dog’s harness but so far I’ve used it in my own video projects. Most recently an ink drawing on Chinese paper filmed with the gopro attached to my […]
Generally speaking I have not been tempted to sit and spy upon people from my vantage point on the rock: there are, quite frankly, more interesting things to look at. (I make an exception for the men spraying marks […]
A nostalgia for a time that never really existed in the first place.
This is another study of an eye focusing more on expression and detail compared to my other one. In total this took me 4 hours to draw and I’m pleased with the outcome of it. I did copy the image […]
This was one of the first eye sketch studies I did using pencil into sketchbook. I got the idea and copied the idea from the internet because I felt the internet was convenient at the time. I am rather pleased […]
Today is only the second time I have given up on a walk (if you don’t count the decision not to go to the end of the Ness of Burgi). There have been several days when I have decided to […]
Today’s walk: a gentle 8.3 mile ramble (according to Mapometer.com) taking in the coastal access path, the village shop in Toab, the airport runway – twice – and (almost) the Ness of Burgi. In other words, a walk around the […]
This week’s selection includes landscape painting in Edinburgh, speculations on the impact of global warming in Trowbridge, and photographic studies of identity and gender in London.
