You’d never guess. Oil on Linen 2007
This is a new work going to the Brighton Art Show in a few weeks. It’s part of my Anthropomorphie series - exploring the way we are animalistic in our actions.
It’s also inspired by my son’s fascination with cat-girls. Innocent but very funny, and certainly due [...]

Step 1 - park the car.
Step 2 - buy ticket and travel by train through underground tunnels and the spine of the city to emerge via an enormous escalator into the sunshine.
Step 3 - visit Daddy at work.
Step 4 - catch tram 4 blocks and have bacon and eggs at the Pancake Parlour.
Step 5 - [...]

Last Night I went with my friend Daniel to Dr Sketchy - the best and most fabulous type of life-drawing class there is. Red wine at your feet, kitchy music and a model with sass. Can’t beat it I reckon.

Things were complicated a little by a model who was restless. She enjoyed the [...]

I’m having one of those times when life seems to throw little pointers out to you to show you the way. The path feels good, but I’m not really sure exactly where I’m going, and it can be hard to stop the internal voice that pipes up from time to time to say negative [...]

My boy got his first ever school report on Friday and it was fantastic. He enjoys school (the learning and the social aspects), and was so proud of his results that is absolutely had to be celebrated. A surprise had to be invented to reward the effort and the joy of learning.
So on [...]

That sunny day, 120cm x 120cm, 2007, Oil on Linen
New work finished.   Whole day of painting ahead of me.  Can’t stop.  Too exciting!

Last night I had the tremendous pleasure of going to the opera.
You may think it’s strange to think it was lovely to make the effort to go and see my beloved husband get stabbed offstage by another woman, but oh the music!
He was performing the role of Arturo in Lucia Di Lammermoor. An opera [...]

That sunny day - work in progress.
Thanks so much for the kind comments over the past couple of days.  They are so appreciated, and it’s amazing to think that people on the other side of the world are reading along.  Welcome!
It’s been a good week for painting.  Zara has slept fairly well (amazing!), and I’ve [...]

Did you know I make monkeys sometimes?
The first monkey I made for my daughter for her 1st birthday.  I fiddled with a pattern from a different sort of toy, and changed a bit here and there, made a different head, and came up with my monkey.  I love my monkeys.  Each one is special, and [...]

Remember being a teenager and having those ridiculous (and fabulous) looong conversations about total and utter crap - just because you were enjoying the fact that you were in the company of a friend - and that they obviously enjoyed being in your company too?
One conversation I remember having more than a few times over [...]