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  Do you struggle to know what to buy people at Christmas…? I know I do….! The heart sinks at the question…. “What do you want…..” I don’t want to be ungrateful, but in truth… what is [...]

How many of us were told we couldn’t ‘do’ art… YEP… HANDS UP… Perhaps you painted a picture you were really proud of, yet the teacher put a big cross through it…?   Everybody else in the class [...]

My first time at Living Crafts last Friday, the largest craft fair in Europe apparently, “promoting the very best of British Crafts”…    The weather was fabulous, and I was lucky [...]

May 2016 update…. I’m excited to tell you about a new wax offer I’ve pulled together… The situation I keep seeing, are people really fancy a go at encaustic wax, but by the time [...]

If you ever visited my art studio, you may recall the way my studio was split into two, centrally down the middle.  During workshops, I often joked about not quite having enough space….. [...]

I have decided to share a bit of my story around some of the fears I have had with my art.  I don’t normally share this kind of information, but think my story might resonate with you.  I [...]

… 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 [...]

This last week has been pretty amazing… I could almost write a blog about every day, there has been so much going on… but I’m going to focus on Thursday, a day which took me to Oxford… I met a [...]