Blog

  • Nothing like a challenge

    I get an email from a friend who works for the National Trust with an idea. How about I make a short film for you in exchange for some drawings for a project I’m doing? I like the film idea....

  • An Italian visitor

    A bonus of having the studio where the public can pop in, is that you get special days when someone really makes your heart sing. An Italian family are staying for a week and absolutely love and appreciate what Cornwall...

  • Losing my marbles and finding them again 

    The pressure, mostly from myself; the expectations, the doubt, the self worth, the ego. Working with the creative mind is so full of uncertainty, dipping and diving , losing focus, a mist of ideas as the mind jumps around with...

  • Putting the studio together in 2 days

    Last year I was lucky enough to have some space in the barn studio at Wooda Farm Holiday Park. I was born there and my brother kindly allowed me the space for the summer months. Over the winter, the barns...

  • The 'It's Not Rubbish Art Show' 2

    From initial meetings and planning in January, BaamFest 2015 in June was always going to be bigger and better. We had a new location,booked a big top marquee, some great music acts and a comedy night with Kernow King. The...

  • Reworking some old boards with surprising results.

    Last summer whilst at the barn studio, I played around with oil bars. Big thick chubby sticks of solid oil colour that were cumbersome and either too soft or too hard. I used them by scraping off colour with a...