Last weekend was the third of four in this year’s artists open houses. The weekend got off to a terrific start when, before I’d even managed to start painting, someone came and introduced themselves to me. He explained that he and has wife had visited on the previous weekend and that they’d been completely bowled […]
Well it’s been quite the week! Here’s a picture of me taken at the end of the Private View last Friday night. We’d all set the exhibition up on Friday morning in readiness for opening to the public at 2pm. I was pleased that my hanging scheme came together just as I’d planned, it really
Tim Wilmot I’m sure that there are very few people that follow me here that don’t already know about Tim Wilmot. I came first came across Tim many years ago, soon after I first started painting in watercolour. He already had a plethora of brilliant watercolour demonstrations that were freely available to access on his
My review of Watercolour artist Tim wilmot’s online painting demonstration Read More »
The opening weekend of Starling Studios exhibition as part of Brighton’s annual Artists Open Houses.
Another online watercolour painting demonstration with the great Alvaro Castagnet – find out how I got on.
Alvaro Castagnet Online Watercolour Workshop – ‘Glowing Interiors’ Read More »
A record of my online watercolour painting workshop with the great Alvaro Castagnet.
After the pressure of getting everything ready and set up for the Open House Exhibition, it was an enjoyable relief to finally open the doors to visitors. There’s been a steady flow of visitors over the weekend and, as on previous occasions, I really enjoyed meeting and talking to people about my paintings and painting
After a tumultuolsy busy few weeks preparing for last weekend’s artists open house exhibition at 2 Knoyle Road, I find myself nigh on wordless – so I’m relying on the old adage of a picture been worth a 1,000 words and throwing a stack of them into this post! The weekend got off to a
Well, after six month’s of mounting anticipation and fevered practicing – my week of painting with artist and Edward Wesson expert Steve Hall finally arrived. My first ever course of this kind, I was excited and apprehensive. And now, looking back, I’m finding it difficult to condense the experience into a single post. What I
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I recently visited the RWS annual exhibition at London’s Mall Galleries (of which more another time) and was able to time my visit to coincide with the day that John Yardley was giving a demonstration in the gallery. I’ve long been an admirer of his work so it seemed like a great opportunity to watch him
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