Welcome to my blog. I have been journaling about my process for a long time and have recently found a love for blogging again. I hope you enjoy reading about my processes, paintings and behind the scenes of my work.
FOR THE LOVE OF SKETCHBOOKS
Why are sketchbooks important to me? I have always kept several sketchbooks open to work inside at the same time. Saving little notes, ideas, colour
PAINTED SKIES
Painting 100 skies over the course of a year understand colour and brushwork a little better. Exploring colour relationships, thicker brushwork and blending. I
Decorative beam painting
I felt incredibly honored to be asked to paint floral motifs in someone’s home, a painting that would last years and years and also blend
Last Sleep background progress
‘Last Sleep’ 16 x 22″, oil on traditional gesso board. Another layer of the under painting, previous layers and pencil marks now hidden, I
Patience Garden
‘Patience Garden’ Oil pencil on a wooden panel, after blocking in the background, I can now work on the details on the petals and
Silk Bow Study
Silk bow study 8 x 10 inches, Polychromos on traditional gesso panel. Traditional drawing and studying values on gesso board. The gesso board is really
Glazing
Glazing is one of my favorite ways to work. I work from a drawing I have studied previously. This will allow me to look at
Exhibition
Four of my ribbon drawings on traditional gesso can be found at Duke House Cambridge. Lizz kindly asked to buy all four in the refurbishment
miniature bows
Miniature box drawings in oil pencil on watercolour paper for an exhibition.
Ribbon Progress
‘Bloom’ oil paint on gesso board. 18 x 22 inches. Working on a study from real-life, lit from a single light source. Grisaille study in
Ribbon underpainting
This is one of the first ribbons I painted using the underpainting technique I was learning about, working up from underpainting to colour layers.
Halo
‘Halo’ Oil pencil on traditional gesso panel, 8 x 10 inches. I have been commissioned by Duke House Cambridge for five of my drawings
Traditional Gesso
Working with traditional gesso is a labor of love for myself, using traditional materials, rabbit skin glue, and French white chalk, to create a ground
Process – Stripy Ribbon Painting
Starting out with handmade gesso panels, made with traditional materials, and sanded many times to achieve a porcelain finish to work on. With a very
Studio Snippets
A look around my workspace, collected and found objects stored safe for another day, blue colour palettes, antique frames gifted from a friend in Italy,
Dreams
Dreams usually inspire my thoughts in some ways, and they can be a source of brilliant ideas, I recently had a dream about a dormouse
Stripy Ribbon – Pencil on Gesso
A new stripy bow drawing, again on my traditional handmade gesso panel in oil pencils.
Dusty pink bow
A small sketch study of a dusty pink bow on gesso paper. Working in layers from pencil, underdrawing to colour layers to achieve depth in
Colour Palettes
Wanting to know more about colour, I was recommended to experiment with colour palettes and see what the colours I already had could make, turns
Postcard Set
I have produced a collection of postcard prints from the ribbon drawings I have on my gesso boards. Each postcard is printed on 200 GSM
Ribbon Gesso Process
Every drawing and painting starts with handmade gesso boards, with many many layers of sanding and a final light coat of umber rubbed into the
‘Night-time’ process
‘Night-time’Oil on wooden panel, on traditional gesso. 4 x 6 inches. This painting was a small experiment in the process of working on stripes from
Ribbons and Bows
To get back into a good drawing habit of actually looking and observing I wanted to start sketching something that I felt out of my