Art + Design

Over the past week or so I’ve been doing a spot of pre-spring gardening. I don’t have much of a garden. In fact, it’s a yard full of containers. I’ve been planting daffodils, tulips, muscari and other spring bulbs, as...

What a day! I’ve spent the best part of it cutting some pretty gift wrap to size so I can make new envelopes for my ACEOs. I’ve got 6 envelopes made with another 38 to go… It’s time consuming but once it’s done I...

After what started as a warm winter Mother Nature’s icy grip has finally descended on Britain and there’s a distinct chill in the air… except my area?! While chaos has spread due to snow, ice and plummeting temperatures, my...

In between helping to digitise old ship logs over at oldweather.org painting new ACEO has been on the agenda today. Why shipping logs? It’s something none creative for my brain to focus on for a while, I help science, and it’s...

Yesterday I started work on a new ACEO. Normally I can get an idea, sketch it, and paint it all in one day but that didn’t happen for some reason. This is as far as I got. I managed to get it drawn out and some watercolour put down to...

My first ACEO of 2012! A mixed media (acrylic & ink) cat ACEO called Sleeping With Fishes. Inspired by the excessive eating we all seem to do over the Festive period, this rotund kitty is snoozing it all off in front of the fish tank....

As promised earlier in the week here are a few photos, including the finished piece in place, of the artwork I’ve been painting for my mum for Christmas. I decided to add a blue and white checkered table cloth very late in the game...

As a ‘not so secret’ Christmas gift for my mum this year I’m painting her a canvas for the feature wall in her living room. She’s not so long ago decorated and all the prints she liked in the stores were either too big...