Oct 28, 2024 | Biggar Little Festival, Lanark Heritage, Uncategorized
Music, History and Painting at Biggar Little Festival 2024 Art and music on display at Biggar Corn Exchange What an honour to be part of this musical creation! Rob Hall and Chick Lyall gave a wonderfully uplifting performance for piano and clarinet yesterday at Biggar...
Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
This is the third year of sketching at the Christmas pop-up shop in the Tolbooth, Lanark. Over 40 artists living in and around the Clyde Valley submit some of their hand-made created/painted/knitted/woven/sewn art work to sell and contribute toward the upkeep of this...
Sep 27, 2021 | Burslem conservation, Uncategorized
Post Office, Front Street, Acomb I’ve been making my way through a long list of unfinished jobs – gradually bringing things I’ve started to completion. A theme in my drawings caught my attention as I noticed several post offices and letter boxes...
Sep 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Sketch drawing for the right hand side of the table – with Flo not Rum Tum Sketching out my work before starting on a surface allows me to weigh up the composition and add or remove things. In this instance Flo is shown sketched above but she got rubbed out and...
Jul 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m not the first to volunteer to be on air/ video. It’s something that I think many other artists also find hard to do but when the reasoning behind the idea is so compelling – well I just have to get over myself. Stephanie Whatley and Christine...
Jun 22, 2021 | Pen and ink drawing, Uncategorized
Boats in Cockenzie Harbour My ‘handbag sketchbook’ has been dormant for a while. It’s a hand-sized book which I normally sketch in when out and about but over the last year or so, trips out have been straight to the point and home again. I realised...