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… to run my encaustic wax workshops on line.  But, looking back, it was only last August that I first launched it.   I hadn’t planned it. It came to me in a brainwave of Arty Heaven [...]

On first hearing about Periscope, my immediate reaction was… Oh no, not ANOTHER social media platform I  really SHOULD be on, I don’t consistently keep up with the ones I’m on [...]

I can’t believe over a week has gone by already since our fabulous weekend at Chiltern Open Air Museum.   If you didn’t make it along, you missed a really chilled, relaxed, easy going fusion of [...]

Did you know that the earliest encaustic pieces, date back to around 6BC? Here is a picture of the earliest known Christ Pantocrator icon…   Painted in encaustic techniques on wooden panel, [...]

Wow, that has taken me a few days to get over, what an AMAZING event…. Over 6,000 visitors over three days in Oxford, 150 artists from 30 countries, exhibited in three stunning historic rooms in [...]

Hertfordshire Life interviewed me about my encaustic wax work and published a great three page article in their January 2015 edition.   You can read the full article here. Many thanks to Jeanette [...]

This journey is just incredible; at times I feel utter frustration at not being as far on, or having done as much as I wanted to achieve in the time I’ve been playing this crazy art game.    Yet, [...]

    *Photograph credit to Stars on Canvas / Willow photographer – My picture was displayed on the right, second one in from bottom – you’ll need your glasses, but a [...]

…  Around 200 visitors trekked out to our little corner of Hertfordshire to visit the six of us at The Stables who opened our doors as part of Herts Open Studios.     If you don’t know what [...]

Wow, what a month…. Timing wise September is not the best of months to be open for me, straight after the summer holidays, two new schools, open evenings, meet the teachers, after school clubs [...]