Encaustic Wax

What a fabulous event we had on Saturday…! The first ever Bloomz Online International Art Exhibition, with eleven artists, was held over Zoom… This was us at the end of the [...]

Do you live near London? Well… North West London… Hertfordshire**, just outside the M25 to be precise…   Are you looking for somewhere ‘different’ to go on a day out…? Do all your usual [...]

A friend shared an article from Forbes with me recently on ‘Leadership in a Time of Crisis…’   The writer, Rasmus Hougaard, advises businesses and corporations on ways to manage their [...]

This week, I was supposed to be in the States…   You might remember I won the Binnie Birstein Scholarship, to attend The International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown? I’d been [...]

Last week I should have been hosting an Art Retreat Week…. I’d created a beautiful intimate space to teach all things encaustic, with a good dollop of space to dream, think, inspire and [...]

  This lock down is making us inventive… It reminds me a bit of being a kid in the 70’s… when we used to go outside and make our own entertainment, with whatever materials [...]

I’ve lost count of how many days we’ve been in lock down now… It’s a weird old feeling as we learn to adjust to this new way of life that has been imposed upon us, eh? [...]

With our country, and the world, going into lock down, and with the desperate pleas for people to STAY AT HOME…. I’ve been in an ethical dilemma for the past few days, on what my part [...]

Wow…. How things can change within a week… What felt like something that affected ‘somebody else, but not me’ has really come into play this week, and as events unfold, [...]

We are finding ourselves in extra-ordinary times….  Covid-19 is restricting our daily lives like nothing many of us have seen before. In an effort to alleviate a little of the stress, [...]