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We are experiencing temperatures we usually expect in July and August at the moment. Combined with the freshness of Spring, everyone is trying to spend as much time outside as possible at the moment. Up early this morning, I captured...

I am Sue Read…. but I am not the only Sue Read. The telephone rang this morning “Hello”. “Are you Sue Read, the artist?”. “Yes” I said. He added, ” I am actually speaking to the artist?”. “Yes”. I am...

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...