Do you intend to be creating more?  You keep looking at all the kit, but you just can’t get motivated, or get overwhelmed…? Maybe you love wax, but you’re exasperated by all the [...]

2019 round up. I think it’s always good to sit down and take a few minutes to reflect on the past year, (in fact decade) and decide what has worked and what hasn’t. It enables me to recognise how [...]

I got the news that I’d won The Binnie Birstein Scholarship to The States just before Christmas.  (You might have heard me screaming!) This means I will be attending The 14th International [...]

  Incase you are still scratching your head around what to buy as gifts this year…  Here are my six stress free Encaustic Wax Christmas Ideas… Guaranteed to bring a smile to their face, and [...]

Did you see the free five day online workshop I’ve been running this week over on my Facebook Page?  Maybe you caught it on YouTube…? I’ve created this blog to pull all the [...]

Have you heard of Egyptian Mummy’s…?    Erm… yes…. hasn’t everybody…. Well, have you heard of “The Fayum Mummy Panels”?   Maybe, maybe not….? What if I [...]

Here is a round up of my journey into becoming an artist…  From a girl who was repeatedly told by society that “art was just a hobby” and consequently embarking on a life of [...]

Lots of questions have been coming up about the VIP Art Retreat Weeks I am running…  So I am doing a series of Live videos and interviews to answer them… It’s far easier to [...]

There is a lot of confusion around the word ‘Encaustic’ especially in Europe it seems, with different language interpretations of an already confusing medium. There are also different [...]

Hello there…! I just wanted to take a moment and say how blown away I was by the responses to my recent newsletter and blog. I’m not the sort to cry very much, I’m more of a stiff upper lip [...]

How do you fancy having something in the diary to really look forward to in the Autumn? Do you have somebody special, or a group of friends you’d love to get together to have a fun creative [...]

Wax and Wine anyone…?   Have you been thinking you fancy a go at this wax painting malarkey, but don’t know if it’s for you…?   Think it could be fun… BUT…..? [...]

I’ve debated sharing this, as it’s taken a lot of internal processing to get to this point.  I’ve touched on this story before, but decided I would share it in full today, because the [...]

Did you know each year there is an International Encaustic Conference held in the States?   They are in their thirteenth year, with LOADS of different encaustic tutors and courses, and classes, [...]

If you have been following me for a while, you may remember the two giant Hiro Yokose paintings I was asked to repair back in 2016…   Here’s a link to the blog if you want a refresher, I still [...]

I wanted to give you a heads up in case you’ve been looking at my art for a while, and thinking I’d really like one of those, or I must get up to Julie’s studio and have a look, or I’d like to [...]

I’ve found people get ‘stuck’ on creating art, often through not prioritising it, (always something else on the to-do list, right!) sometimes they can’t remember quite how to do it, or, [...]

I thought I would write a blog on Hotplates, and heat sources, it’s one of the most common questions I get asked, and if I’d known at the beginning, what I know now, I could have saved myself a [...]

In November last year, I was contacted by a lady who wanted some commissioned pieces of artwork for her walls.  I take on a handful of commissions each year, and love nothing more than [...]

What I’m sharing today, has been shared before, but it’s so important, I think it’s worth sharing again…. How many of us were told we couldn’t ‘do’ art… YEP… HANDS UP… Perhaps you painted a [...]