Doing as we are told
Degas breaking the rules of composition and framing – The dance lesson We’ve worked with lots of artists over the years who want clear instructions about how to draw or paint. At one level this is easy to answer, if you […]
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Football’s going Rome…
Detail of Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, who was rubbish at football. On Sunday a group of plucky lads narrowly escaped becoming national heroes. I know nothing of football but I imagine they were a bit disappointed. To […]
Oily fish and oil paint
Black Scabbard Fish – if it’s not oily, it should be. Reviewing the many health benefits of eating oily fish I was encouraged to read that “Among people who abuse alcohol, fish oil may offer protection from dementia” which is lucky, because I may […]
Mothing to See Here
Mothing to see here We had a visitor in the studio this week, an exceedingly elegant lady who it transpires was a lime hawk moth. She was huge and plump with a seductively velvety belly. Most noticeably she was wearing […]
Talking and Pictures
You may know the feeling. Notwithstanding a world class arts education, forty years of diligent practice, many sales and peer reviewed accolades, you discover that you haven’t a clue how to paint. On top of that you’re useless at drawing […]
Casual sex and Sunday painters
Casual sex and Sunday painters Trees near Breccles – Winston Churchill I know we’re not allowed to go on holiday but is anyone clear about the government regulations around casual sex? I’m asking for a friend. My grasp of the […]
Making the best of it
Vincent van Gogh, Four Swifts with Landscape Sketches, 1887; Paris, France The swifts are here. It may not be the Summer we wanted, it’s cold, wet and we can’t go anywhere nice but there are green things and flowers and pleasures […]
Why Turner may be turning in his grave
Ancient Sounds – Paul Klee 1925 – It’s visual and it’s art so nothing to do with the Turner Prize. Whilst the Turner Prize is ostensibly for British excellence in the visual arts you wonder at times at the definition of ‘visual’, let […]
Going the extra mile – old wisdom in the modern era
Recent visitors to our studios will have noticed the addition of some new bookshelf speakers. I say bookshelf because they are sort of on a bookshelf but actually they are each the size of a fridge and have monstrously large, […]
Post Covid Artists
Our studio, ready and waiting Are you a Post Covid artist? And what would that mean for you? Whilst not presuming to know any individuals personal reality, it seems that we have stared pestilence in the face, contemplated our mortality and […]
