My Influences

Health, My Influences, Self Motivation

How Art can Help You Cope with Stress and Anxiety

I am sure you will know or heard of at least one person who completely turned their life around after a bad experience. And often it’s something creative that made a difference to their mental health and helped them cope with stress and anxiety. One of my friends is a […]

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I Entered Sky Arts…and Painted the Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done

How I Ended Up on Sky Arts… Sometimes Artists make terrible decisions just like the rest of us. And, in 2015 I made a whopper of a bad choice when I took part in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year competition. Sadly, from the minute I pitched my easel […]

Acrylics, Line & Wash, My Influences, My Process, Pencil, Self Motivation, Sketches, Watercolour

The Agony and Ecstacy of Creating an Artwork

Creating a new Artwork is much like being a new mum. It’s painful, it’s exhausting, it’s frustrating but the pain and sacrifice is worth it in the end. But letting go of an artwork is another story… I think you would agree that most artists illustrate the consciousness of mankind. […]