Artists Blog

Great fun and lots to learn in this workshop like the amount and intensity needed to create the power of the lights. Ink pen coloured wax and water colour were used for students to achieve these fabulous results!

A tremendous range of techniques achieved in Jackie's One to One workshop. These are intense and whilst one painting is drying another one is starting. Lots of exercises to practice before the painting. The photograph isn't showing the subtle value of the beautiful water colour.

September workshop Wonderful results from using lots of techniques including clingfilm to create the waves .

Elderberries ripe and juicy on fabulous magenta stems. The leaves were fading into autumn pale greens and yellows. A 24 pack of Crayola...

Fingals Cave. Travel with me through my photographs and paintings Cruising with Fred Olsen I feel very honoured to have gained a post of...

On Sunday 24th Augusts workshop students created brilliant results from painting my home grown seedheads. Shown are alliums for the...

A three hour workshop portraying this fabulous dragon fly with white wax to show the transparent wings, bright wax colours for the body...

Students worked with the ink, coloured wax and watercolour to create these highly original paintings. The next workshop where I will be...

Distant mountains golden corn field and wild flowers of the season. Wax crayons, cling film and cotton wool and mixed media were used for...

Students first practiced tonal values in one colour of pencil in a grid then wet them to see the effect. They worked from feathers to...

Main inspiration for this class. Brilliant results from students.

Fun results in loose watercolour In fridays class at the Ten 2 gallery Hinckley a lot of painstaking controlled colour washes for these...

Brownsover art society invited me to run a half day workshop for their members. This was in my style of using water colour wax and ink. ...

Higham on the Hill church by my student Frank They worked on flat washes for the sky then added a distinctive silhouette of a sky line....

A complex painting of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire was the subject for this class. Wonderful results were achieved with the aid of a...

Reporting on my trip to Norway on Fred Olsen's Borealis as Art tutor 1st -15th February 2025 First Stop Alesund this photo was taken from...

On 1st February I will be sailing on the Fred Olsen Borealis to teach the art classes. I cant wait to share the joy of learning water...

A fabulous voyage north up to Alesund, Tromso, Alta, Sortland and Bergan A selection of photos from my trip and if you would like to see...

A smashing time at Penn arts society where students created these paintings of my Japanese tree peony in its autumn colours. They tried...

The Floral Artists Society based in Leicester produced these fabulous paintings in the workshop held on Saturday 9th November.