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
Nov 7, 20185 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, 20182 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
Apr 8, 20182 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, 20182 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
Jan 25, 20183 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, 20172 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, 20172 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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