Lockdown Paper Cuttings: a new open studio exhibition
WITH LOCKDOWN measures about to ease I’m pleased to announce Lockdown Paper Cuttings, my upcoming open studio exhibition.
Art Studio
Articles about fine art and illustration projects, all of which relate to silhouettes in some form or other. These also appear on the art studio carousel.
Mays Barn 2020 Studio Catalogue
MY 2020 STUDIO CATALOGUE has now been launched, featuring paintings and drawings from last year. For me, 2019 was an interesting year. It started with a much-needed and long-overdue studio clearout, in which I simply got rid of most of the unsold work from the last twenty years to so. This has made a massive
Opening my Creative Space
MAY IS HERE, so I’m opening Mays Barn to exhibit a new series of silhouette paintings and prints. Should I invite Theresa May?
Should an Artist Recycle their Art?
YESTERDAY I spent the whole day recycling art……or at least preparing to. Can you give a painting or two a new home?
Mays Barn 2019 Studio Catalogue
DOWNLOAD my 2019 art catalogue. I’m happy to announce that my studio catalogue for 2019 has now been launched and you can download it here.
Caversham Arts Trail: Once a year I become a cat
ONCE A YEAR I become a cat. Well, it’s an acronym, of course. CAT stands for Caversham Arts Trail, which is the annual open-studio event for artists based in Caversham. The Caversham Arts Trail takes place over the middle two weekends of May. As acronyms go, it’s a good one, and we seem have taken it to
Mays Barn: a silhouettist’s studio
IN EMMER GREEN, at the bottom of the garden of an unassuming 1920’s semi-detached house you’ll find Mays Barn. It was quite a find! I always tell people we bought the barn and the house came with it! But why is it there?
A Paper Anniversary silhouette
ONE YEAR ON falls the paper anniversary. A little over a year ago I was booked to attend a wedding at the Savoy, London. It was a wonderful event and I cut some memorable silhouettes, including a three-minute cutting of one of the most complicated hats I’ve ever seen.
Mixed-media Building Silhouettes
TODAY, THE MAKING of silhouettes is synonymous with paper cutting. However, this was not always so.
The Empty Frames Project
THE IDEA OF HANGING EMPTY FRAMES on a gallery wall emerged from my work at events. Clients often suggest that it would be fun to arrange all the silhouettes on a wall and have people guess who they are. Doing this is easy enough (given an empty wall and a roll of sellotape). However, I
iPhone Drawings
NOW THAT Mastering Silhouettes is out of my hands I have some time to return to the studio and do some painting. My biggest inspiration so far this year has been the (very crowded) David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy, so I’ve been making iPhone drawings.