Studio blog: Inktober 2025 days 15 to 21
It’s been a quieter week, this week, with a lot more sketches drawn at home and just one trip out after dropping off workshop materials. You can read more about this year’s project here.
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Studio blog: Inktober 2025 days 8 to 14
Week two of Inktober 2025. You can read more about the project in my earlier blog post. This week’s sketches include the views after three workshops, plus views around the house and garden and whilst out visiting.
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Studio blog: Inktober 2025 days 1 to 7
I am currently taking part in the annual Inktober challenge, where participants are encouraged to create a sketch using ink every day during October. There are ‘official’ prompts given out by the organisers if you are stuck for ideas, but, as usual, I have decided to go my own way and concentrate on what I would…
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Studio blog: plein air workshop in Durham with Toby Sketch Loose
I had a fabulous day out in Durham a couple of weeks ago, plein air / urban sketching on a workshop run by artist Toby Haseler, aka Toby Sketch Loose, and a lovely group of fellow sketchers. I always love to learn from other artists, and when I found out Toby was coming up to Durham…
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Finished artwork: autumnal sycamore leaves – chine collé lino prints
A series of autumnal lino prints of a sycamore leaf found in my garden. They are printed using the chine collé technique, where collage paper is used to create the background colour. I also created the collage papers using a mono printing technique. It’s a really lovely technique for adding colour to lino printing, and…
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Finished artwork: Celtic Facets
After 6 months, I’m pleased to say that my ‘Celtic Facets’ artwork is now completed and I’m very pleased with the result. This artwork originally began life in February of this year, when I took an online course with geometric artist, Clarissa Grandi, which I really enjoyed and learned a lot from. I wanted to…
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Finished artwork: copper embossed clock
I made this copper embossed clock recently as a birthday present for my partner and I’m pleased to say it has gone down very well! Apparently it’s ‘the best birthday present ever’ 😄 The design is by my partner, it’s the monogram he uses on his artwork, and he will be using the clock in…
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Studio blog: June 2025 artwork recap
Last month I mostly concentrated on creating Celtic knotwork, but I’ve also worked on some outdoor sketches, accordion book making, drypoint plate creating, knitting and pottery. I’ll write a longer piece on the Celtic knotwork soon, but in the meantime, here’s a very short video to show what I’ve been up to.
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Studio blog: May 2025 artwork round up
This video below shows a selection of the art that I’ve been creating during May 2025. There’s woodcut printmaking, drypoint printmaking, pastels on monotypes, sketching from photographs and en plein air. I’ve always enjoyed exploring and learning about all manner of new things, and this month has certainly been no exception! I think my favourite…
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Studio blog: woodcut carving and printing
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…
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Studio blog: more pastel on monotype experiments
After taking the pastel on monotype workshop at PrintFest the other weekend (see that blog post), I’ve been experimenting with the technique some more. The inspiration is the crab apple tree in our garden, that is always a delight with it’s pink buds turning to white blossom at this time of year. It’s such an…
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Studio blog: pastel on monotype
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…
