Quiet Observation: Three East Anglian Painters
A blog post exploring the quiet beauty of the art of Elinor Bellingham-Smith, Elisabeth Vellacott and Mary Newcomb.
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Painter and Printmaker
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
Meadow Clocks
A blog post about my love of the seed head of the wild flower Goat's Beard
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Painter and Printmaker
- Jun 7, 2022
- 3 min
The Drawing Cure
How using a sketchbook can help you take notice of the world around you and cultivate mindfulness.
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Painter and Printmaker
- Jul 12, 2021
- 3 min
A Smaller World
How a change led to rediscovering poppies.
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Painter and Printmaker
- May 25, 2021
- 3 min
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh*
I had hoped to set forth this week, sketchbook in hand, to capture a pocket of the Waveney Valley that I have discovered just a couple of...
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Painter and Printmaker
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
Closer to home
I didn’t intend for there to be a pause here, but then I didn’t expect what would happen in the months that followed. In the first...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Aug 6, 2020
- 4 min
Looking at Sketchbooks
I have always loved looking at other’s sketchbooks. One of my earliest art memories is seeing a page of Samuel Palmer’s sketchbook in my loc
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Painter and Printmaker
- Jun 16, 2020
- 3 min
Seeking the Overlooked: Woodbine, Rose and Bramble
Now the hedgerows are festooned with honeysuckle, generously draping itself over sapling trees and filling the pathways with its pale golden
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Painter and Printmaker
- Nov 7, 2018
- 5 min
How to make a Linoprint
The following article appeared on Painters Online, the online edition of "The Artist" magazine and thought it might be useful for someone...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min
Turning Over a New Leaf
To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Jul 20, 2018
- 2 min
Moths and Moonshine
Those of you who follow me on Instagram and Twitter will know that I am rather partial to moths. The hot, still summer days of the past...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Apr 8, 2018
- 2 min
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. Winter...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Feb 16, 2018
- 2 min
Into the Woods
Woods I part the out thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and the blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Feb 1, 2018
- 2 min
Awakening
I love winter. I love crisp, bright days, the low light of December and the tracings of branches across the sky; but this winter has been...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Jan 25, 2018
- 3 min
Tim'rous beastie
I love winter, but this January has been a particularly dark, damp and dreich month and I have found myself looking for signs of spring...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Nov 15, 2017
- 2 min
Trees Be Company
I suppose it was inevitable that I should follow on from making prints of birds to making pictures of trees. Although they have featured...
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Painter and Printmaker
- Nov 5, 2017
- 2 min
Venturing Forth
I have always been rather reluctant to draw or paint in public. I am happy enough in my studio, or in a discreet place, away from view,...
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