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I have been wanting to paint outside for a long time. Photographs just aren’t giving me what I want and the memories are not held strong enough for detail, so I emptied out all the camping gear and pushed the...

Every painting experience is full of emotion. The anticipation, the vision, the joy, the disappointment, the frustration ….. the struggle. Hopefully it turns itself around at some point and you end up with something you are pleased with. ” Working...

I have literally dropped my paintbrush as I had an epiphany, a “thought”, a “new post” I wanted to hold on to. Grasping it by the tail, I pulled it back desperately trying to hang onto the words. I think...

When I first saw David Hockney’s paintings of his home territory in Yorkshire, I wasn’t sure about them. This is a very generalised statement as I don’t think any art can be judged unless seen in the flesh. Was it...

Mordros is a Cornish word for the sound of the sea. It is thought that such a word only exists in Cornish and Polynesian. Given the shape of cornwall, the fact that it has 300 miles of coastline and you...

Between painting days, there are the usual jobs to be done, housework, shopping etc. Todays list included helping a friend with a decorating dilema, a spot of shopping for my mother and collecting some logs from the farm to keep...