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… 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 [...]

Never too late to embrace something new… My Father-In-Law Peter is 86 years old… Pete has spent a good amount of time staying with us over the last couple of years, and whilst he never had an [...]

Did you know that the earliest encaustic pieces, date back to around 6BC? Here is a picture of the earliest known Christ Pantocrator icon…   Painted in encaustic techniques on wooden panel, [...]

Wow, that has taken me a few days to get over, what an AMAZING event…. Over 6,000 visitors over three days in Oxford, 150 artists from 30 countries, exhibited in three stunning historic rooms in [...]

Hertfordshire Life interviewed me about my encaustic wax work and published a great three page article in their January 2015 edition.   You can read the full article here. Many thanks to Jeanette [...]

Two years ago today I picked up the keys to my new studio….  I feel a rendition of “Happy Birthday to me…. Happy Birthday to me…” coming on….  After finally making the decision to rent a studio, [...]

When I started this venture, it was a passionate hobby, which if I sold an odd card, or picture, I was utterly elated… My painting and drawing has lead me on a path, I never could have [...]