RIP David Bowie

A bowie-esque image I made a while ago…, Bowie had a huge impact on me, seeing him at Live Aid, watching ‘The man who fell to earth’ in a university library I used to sneak into whilst at school, hearing ‘Heroes’ playing during the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. He is a real icon…

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New painting – a woman’s back

I recently finished this painting of a woman’s back inspired by a life book 2015 class by Donna Downey. I also have a process video to share tomorrow.

Smoky wings

I’m currently on a painting ban until next weekend (as I have to complete some other stuff) but couldn’t help sneaking in a practice of some smoke that I wanted to make into the shape of wings for a mixed media painting. I’ve never painted smoke before and its really hard, but I started with…

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Selection of paintings from 2015

Here are some of the paintings I made in 2015, it has been an amazing 2nd year of painting, I’ve really enjoyed painting portraits, trying to become more adventurous with colour and painting animals, albeit mostly human animal hybrids. I hope you all have a fantastic new year and a very happy 2016, thank you…

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December calendar art journal page

I managed to complete my December calendar art journal page just in time yay! It has been a challenge to work on a page of this size and dimension, being long and thin, but that has made it really interesting and I will be continuing using the same calendar in 2016. This month I decided…

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New painting – Wild and Free

I recently finished a painting that was inspired by a Life Book 2015 prompt. I’ve never painted a horse before but have wanted to for ages, as I spent a lot of my childhood at the local riding stables :). It took a long time to make but I’m glad I persevered.