A recent visit to Tate St. Ives revealed yet another video installation – this time by Tacita Dean. There is a lovely view across the beach...

Making copies of other artists’ work is one of the best ways of gaining new insights into working methods. Whenever I come across a painting...

This detail of Thomas Richardson's watercolour was set as a copy exercise to my workshop participants. I decided to make a copy myself. ...

I've recently completed a series of watercolour workshops for a group of complete beginners - it was something of a challenge. Routine e...

An exhibition associated with Royal Worcester Infimary Installation showed photographs of the building showing the old wards in varying stat...

The video installations which are the current preoccupation of museum curators are a bore. I encountered one in Worcester recently commissio...

Gallery Talk It is always interesting to listen to comments people make about paintings. At the Ludlow Art Society Summer Exhibition this ye...

Organising Exhibitions: Tedious Repetition or Challenging Opportunity The Chairman’s appeal for someone to organise the Summer Exhibition at...

The loose handling of watercolour has a surprisingly long history. The most notable exponent was Turner whose Venetian sketchbooks are full ...

I am a keen admirer of Edward Wesson’s watercolours but he is a bad exemplar for amateur painters. Wesson developed a very personal loose wa...

The other day I was talking to a friend about drawing in pen and ink. The medium is essentially a linear one and tonal contrast is generally...

Artists, I am certain, love their own paintings – it is something that is inherent in the creative process. I daresay there are artists, dri...

I paid a visit to the Walsall Art Gallery which houses the Garman-Ryan Collection. Sally Garman was Jacob Epstein’s lifelong mistress who he...

I’ve currently been working on a pastel sketch that I made some years ago on a painting course run by Claire Spencer PS at Westhope College ...

Whenever possible I try to avoid using fixative because it can create problems. Too heavy application renders the paper surface hard and smo...

The attractive qualities of pastel are its directness and the textural marks which are possible with the medium. With a portrait currently o...

I’ve temporarily abandoned studies of birds to return to a portrait that is in danger of going off the boil. I began it last summer prompted...

This digital image was made from a photograph of a 2005 calendar published by Hawksworth Graphic and Print Ltd. The calendar was one of the ...

A poster announcing an exhibition called ‘Cuoto on Netsuke’ caught my eye at the Museum and Art Gallery in Hereford so I made a brief visit...

I’ve just enrolled for a Wildlife Drawing and Painting Course at Ludlow Museum. The museum has a good collection of bird specimens that are ...