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Do you intend to be creating more?  You keep looking at all the kit, but you just can’t get motivated, or get overwhelmed…? Maybe you love wax, but you’re exasperated by all the [...]

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 [...]

We all know what happened in 2020… I’m being patient to see whether I can make it to the 2022 conference instead, I am so grateful to the Conference team, who have been so [...]

  Incase you are still scratching your head around what to buy as gifts this year…  Here are my six stress free Encaustic Wax Christmas Ideas… Guaranteed to bring a smile to their face, and [...]

This blog shares a free online encaustic wax workshop video series I ran in December 2019, I hope you find it helpful… for more resources, check out the links further down the page.   [...]

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 thought I would write a blog on Hotplates, and heat sources, it’s one of the most common questions I get asked, and if I’d known at the beginning, what I know now, I could have saved myself a [...]

What I’m sharing today, has been shared before, but it’s so important, I think it’s worth sharing again…. How many of us were told we couldn’t ‘do’ art… YEP… HANDS UP… Perhaps you painted a [...]

In April I spent a week portrait painting with Lora Murphy in London, it was amazing, you can read about that here… but one morning I played truant and skipped class… It was day six, [...]

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 [...]