Every year, pre-Covid lockdowns, I tried to attend printmaking workshops run by other artists to improve my own printmaking skills and bring a fresh perspective to my own art prints.
Read MoreSpring has sprung! The garden is full of daffodils, the bees are out foraging and the birds are really giving it a lot of welly at the moment. In the meantime I’ve been squirrelling away in the studio.
Read MoreBeing a professional artist is challenging!
You might think I spend all my time in the studio making prints, but that's not the case.
Read MoreI don’t know about you but in our house Christmas feels very unreal and strange.
We won’t be seeing our daughter and her partner we still don’t know if our son can come from Glasgow. He lives in one of the areas where the Scottish Test & Trace are rolling out mass testing from this week, so we will have to wait and see.
A couple of days ago I wrote about what a wonderful place Vatersay and the Isle Of Barra was for providing me with massive scope for inspiration.
Read MoreBefore Christmas I put a call out in my newsletter asking for artists to contact me if they were interested in collaborating with me to create interesting printmaking courses, some of which might be that little bit different.
Read MoreThere is a general misconception that an artist’s life is a walk in the park - I mean who wouldn't want to make pretty pictures all day, right?
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