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I came across the term ‘Arts On Prescription’ at an event a few years ago… and loud sirens went off… THIS… This was exactly what I’d been experiencing first [...]

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 [...]

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…..? [...]

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 [...]

… 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 [...]