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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Very proud to have been selected as one of the three artists from the Otter Artist’s Society, to exhibit at this inaugural Pop Up event in the Mill Lane studio. Accompanied by wildlife artist, Cliff Towler and painter, Julie Vatcher the three of us exhibited our most recent works, whilst also being set up to…
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Having created a catalogue of works to accompany recent exhibitions, I thought it might be a useful tool to keep updated on my website. So here it is! …the latest version. You can click the links to view the 42-page Catalogue and browse it online or even download it. You will find a selection of…
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