Fanciful Gothic Beasts This pastel was composed around 1992 from sketches of the misericords in the choir stalls of St. Laurence, Ludlow. T...

‘A brief encounter after more than 15 years.’ Yesterday I went into our local print gallery just to browse. They have boxes of cheap mounted...

“It’s Like Meeting Old Friends.” I’m married to a woman who is passionate about tidiness so when faced with the threat of having my normally...

Scilly tips for Sketchers Sketching outdoors in front of the subject beats having to work solely from photographs. When working out of door...

More Candidates for reworking Although these two pastels started as ‘plein air’ sketches one ended up as a finished pastel. It was a mistake...

Second Thoughts - reworking in a different medium. I’m currently taking a look at some paintings I did a few years ago with the idea of rewo...

“This guy can draw anything.” In Ludlow we were entertained by John Palmer who gave a presentation to Art Society members at our September s...

Drenched but Ecstatic Last week I paid a visit to ‘The Stiperstones’ – these are striking outcrops of rocks on a hilltop in Shropshire. The ...

I’ve Been Out Sketching Today I happened to be in Worcester with an hour to spare, it was a warm sunny afternoon so I found a quiet spot in ...

In Watercolour Small is Beautiful J. M. Ince’s watercolours in Hereford have set me off on a series of small watercolours. Ince’s paintings ...

Celebrating 60 Years Of Achievement Ludlow Art Society’s Summer Exhibition which opens on the 19th August marks the Society’s 60th Anniversa...

The Painter of Presteigne The Hereford Art Gallery and Museum is curently showing an exhibition of Watercolours by Joseph Murray Ince 1806-1...

A struggle with ‘The Friars’ The gothic west front of I Frari in Venice dominates a little campo so that you have to tilt the head backward...

A Preview and a First Night Last week I was at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre for the first night of Michael Bogdanov’s production of ‘Fiddler ...

En Plein Air Artists’ online forums are interesting places. For a start they are an ideal way for artists to share interests and concerns e...

What is the best watercolour paper? It’s the hardy perennial that’s asked whenever a group of amateur artist’s get together and there just i...

Why worry about boxes, brushes and paper? Whenever a group of amateur painters get together it is certain that before long they will be disc...

painting can be agony with very little ecstasy l'Ancresse Bay, Guernsey This link goes to a painting I've been agonising over for a ...

Accidents are rarely happy Yesterday there occurred one of those frustrating moments when I thought I had brought a painting to a satisfying...

A way of seeing ‘The Impressionists’ – BBC2’s drama documentary made informative viewing. There was a telling moment in the first episode wh...