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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 [...]

  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 [...]