Studio blog: Inktober 2024, week 3 round up
The month is flying by and week three of Inktober is already over! Above are my sketches of daily life for this past week.
See my week one blog to read a bit more about the project.







The month is flying by and week three of Inktober is already over! Above are my sketches of daily life for this past week.
See my week one blog to read a bit more about the project.
Pictured is the beginning of one of my Celtic knotwork drawings. They start from a pencil drawing, often involving a geometric base. Once hand drawn, the piece is coloured in pencil, with a little bit of gold ink along the way sometimes. With all the intricate detail and many layers of colour, an A4 piece…
Thank you so much for your support this year, as a self-employed artist, I really appreciate it. An especially big thank you to everyone who has come along to one of my classes this year. It’s been an amazing year and I’ve loved every minute of it and meeting so many wonderful people. I’d also…
I’ve just put the finishing touches to this copper embossed clock and I’m really pleased with how it turned out. The Celtic design is an old one of mine that was part of my symbol mandala series, which is in my first book. It originally had a sun design in the centre, but I took…
I had a fantastic day at PrintFest in Ulverston on Saturday, where I attended two workshops taught by Alex Jakob-Whitworth. The afternoon workshop was pastel on monotype, a really interesting process and apparently following in the footsteps of Degas who used a similar process. I can see so many possibilities with this technique, so I’m definitely going to…
As part of the Prudhoe Art Trail this year, 4 of my Celtic knotwork pieces are being shown in the Community Hub at 61 Front Street, Prudhoe, and 1 Celtic knotwork piece is being shown in the library. The art trail is taking place from 8th to 22nd July. All of the pieces in the…
This is a recreation of a Thomas Bewick wood engraving, but recreated as a wood cut, and of course at a much larger scale! This was one of the demo blocks I took to Beamish Museum a couple of years ago to demonstrate printmaking during Georgian times, and also to demonstrate the works of Thomas…