surrendering to process I was talking with a fellow studio holder yesterday about controlling process, and surrendering to process. It’s...

schematic layouts Procrastination takes many forms. The outside world mutters about it as though it’s a bad thing: but procrastination...

Here’s an all time first. I’ve been staying the last fortnight with friends in their Indian Ocean paradise. As usual, I packed enough...

Tidying up. Found some crayons. Found a mirror without any light. Just what was needed. #drawing #Portraiture #Selfportrait

I have an exhibition starting this weekend. It’s in a relatively small room adjacent to a larger dining area and bar at The Reliance in...

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Yes. Absolutely. It is intrusive behaviour, and goodness knows how I’d feel if someone captured me with my head back, mouth open and an...

Waiting at station to collect a young international concert pianist whom we are hosting this weekend. The train is due in a couple of...

I think it’s over two years since I last did a life class. I was tempted to spend all today doing a “Klimt” based one. It’s a nice way of...

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Just as exciting as finding a new drawing app is the complete overhaul and improvement of an existing app. Art Studio, long one of my...

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Westbourne Grove (a portrait of everyday) (detail of collage element) It’s been a while… but things get busy… the drawings are coming...

Despite the rain and consequential almost-floods requiring construction of a barrage of bags of compost across the drive, I made it in to...

The hands have it today. A week of making up poses and narratives has sent me scurrying in search of those masters of narrative posing to...

Last summer I completed a large drawing installation for the On The Edge festival in Leeds, mapping through drawing the demographic...

I like drawing the thing immediately in front of me. I like taking just what’s there, non negotiable. It’s often an empty glass. Although...

Lazy days. I just want to sit out or lie down in the sun. This might be summer. It’s bound to rain over the Jubilee weekend....

Back to people. It’s always back to people. The default setting. Sometimes it’s people mediated through the eyes of another. The head at...