Lots of questions have been coming up about the VIP Art Retreat Weeks I am running…  So I am doing a short series of Lives to answer them… It’s far easier to explain than 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 don’t normally work to commission, as I often find the stress of creating the [...]

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 [...]

Well… a week or two into the New Year, the dust is settling after all of the festivities, and I’m beginning to get that creative itch again.  I felt it would be good to do a little round [...]

Upcoming Encaustic Wax Workshops in Sarratt 2018…   I am super excited to share that I will be running some encaustic wax workshops from my new studio in Sarratt this November and December.  [...]

In April I spent a week portrait painting with Lora Murphy, it was amazing, you can read about that here… but one morning I skipped class… By day six my head was in melt down.  The [...]

This post will only make sense if you have clicked through from my newsletter or blog post… It is in relation to my wrist injury in 2018, and wondering if I would ever be able to paint [...]

If you’ve been meaning to buy your own encaustic wax equipment, but just not got around to it yet, this post is to let you know that most encaustic wax supplies are increasing, by around [...]

Did you know the origins of encaustic wax painting goes back to Egyptian Mummy Portraiture and Iconography, around 2,000 years ago…?  (A couple of examples below)       I’ve always worked [...]

The past few months have been turbulent to say the least…  I’ve at times felt like I was in a washing machine on fast spin…! Moving out of my studio at the end of March was a [...]