Art, Writing and Culture.
Male muscle studies – new charcoal sketches available. I’ve released some charcoal sketches in my “muscle study” range direct to my Etsy store. I’m quite pleased with these drawings – they’re simple but convey a sense of elegance combined with power… and the power of transformation. All of these drawings are mounted to A5 […]
Creating my home art studio: Since moving house I’ve been chipping away at getting my new studio ready. By ready I don’t mean simply ready to work in – oh no, I mean ready enough to be shared with the internet. A few months in and I’ve decided that it’ll never be that ready, so […]
How to get a domain name and website free for a year. If you need a website to showcase your artwork or your design portfolio, this deal might just be perfect for you. You can get a .design top level domain (TLD) for free for one year, and even better – that comes with a […]
What do I mean by making art that fits your life? A while ago, I wrote about the cycle of burnout that I’ve experienced by trying to achieve too much in too short a space of time. I took a quote from that post and put it on Instagram: Another artist commented, “Ok. What […]
Romanticising artists’ work is harmful “Painting is not a job, it’s a joy.” So said Jonathan Jones in a review of Rose Wylie’s show at the Serpentine Gallery, Quack Quack. This stuck with me. Jones was getting ahead of the reaction to Wylie’s naïve-style work, saying that, in the UK, we need more of Wylie’s […]
