During the Covid-19 pandemic, I had the pleasure to join with hundreds or other artists, to offer a free portrait to an NHS worker as part of the Portraits for NHS Heroes movement. Early on in the pandemic, artist Tom Croft came up with the idea, with the aim of finding some meaning in painting, […]
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Jackson’s Art Open Painting Prize longlist
I was delighted to find out that one of my seed packet paintings was recently longlisted in an art prize. The Shasta Daisy seed packet painting, featured here, was chosen as one of 421 pieces out of an incredible 5366 entries in the competition, selected for the still life category of the Jackson’s Art ‘Open Painting Prize’ Longlist! The […]
Chelsea Art Society 2018
I was bowled over to have a piece of work selected again this year for the Chelsea Art Society annual exhibition. On Thursday night I headed up to London to Chelsea Old Town Hall for the private view – and saw so much fabulous work! The art society was founded in 1910 and is the […]
Society of Women Artists Private View
I’ve been waiting for this in anticipation since the end of July, when I got the news I had a piece selected for the Society of Women Artists 157th Annual Exhibition. It was worth the wait. The exhibition opened on Tuesday this week, with Private View Wednesday morning, presided over by the President Soraya French […]
Society of Women Artists
Hot on the heels of the Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize, the accepted works were announced this week for the Society of Women Artists annual exhibition and I was SUPER happy to see my name on it! As on my last post, I’m not afraid to say that I’ve entered many competitions before and not […]
Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize
Developing as an artist is as much about improving your painting technique as it is about developing a thick skin. Whether that’s due to showing your work or entering competitions. Over the years I have entered a few, though, like MANY artists, have inevitably received the kindly worded rejection letter. Even very well-renowned artists get […]
The Oxmarket Gallery with Example art group
This week saw Example art group, of which I’m a member, take over 100 pieces of work to The Oxmarket Gallery in Chichester for our latest biannual exhibition. If you’re in the area on Saturday 7 July, 2-4pm, do come say hello! Back in 2014 we successfully staged Townscape, an art trail around East Grinstead, […]
Judge and jury
In my work life, I’ve often been asked to judge competitions, all in the realm of illustration and design, from the AOI to D&AD. It was a new experience, however, to be asked to judge in the capacity as artist. Earlier this year I was approached by East Grinstead Meridian Rotary to co-judge their plate […]
Garden Store blog
Since the end of the 30 in 30 seed packet series, my heart has been warmed by the reactions to the paintings. People have said how much they’d looked forward to seeing the new paintings each day and some have felt inspired to paint again, after time away from their passion. During the series, I […]
More rain forecast
After a good rest from the 30 in 30, I’ve been taking things a wee bit easier, and have only worked on a new rain painting. Just one painting, though I haven’t rested on my laurels. Whilst the 30 in 30 is supposed to help you create a more natural rhythm or habit for making […]
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