Finding your mojo
Every artist hits a creative slump once in a while. You want to paint but you don’t know what to paint, or even where to start. When you do finally put brush to paper, it’s a disaster. The drawing is wrong, the colours are muddy ,
Society of Botanical Artists Receiving Day 2014
Getting ReadyPhoenix dactylifera, believed to be Khesab variety With my five SBA paintings finished, it was time to prepare them for the next stage of the journey. First I took them to Fire.ie to be scanned professionally. Whilst it’s not cheap, it’s always worthwhile getting a
Wings
Sometimes inspiration is hard to find, and other times it literally lands on your doorstep. Such was the case a few weeks ago, when I found a little female chaffinch lying outside my back door. I think she must have crashed into the windowpane for
Papyrus
I am bursting with excitement this week!I have just sent my papyrus painting off to the Gaiás Centre Museum in Galicia, Spain, where it will be taking part in an exhibition on Fresh Water, running from March until September 2014. It is an ambitious project