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Lots of questions have been coming up about the VIP Art Retreat Weeks I am running…  So I am doing a series of Lives to answer them… It’s far easier to explain than to write in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I had the privilege to be asked to repair two encaustic paintings in the autumn, which proved to be one of the biggest challenges I’ve encountered yet. Back in the summer, I was contacted by a [...]

I had the privilege to be asked to repair two encaustic paintings in the autumn, which proved to be one of the biggest challenges I’ve encountered yet.   Read on here for the full story, and [...]

The thing I love most about teaching how to paint with encaustic wax is…. The quiet hush… If you had told me five years ago, that I’d be teaching people how to paint I’d have said you were off [...]