I am pleased to say that the first workshop held here at the studio went very well in January. Thank you to all who came, it was an exciting and nerve wracking first workshop. I am now organising my next few workshops to be held here at the French Collection studio and will be sending out detailed information and forms shortly to those who haved joined the mailing list, so check your inboxes!

The following dates have available places:

Pastel landscape and flowers - April 16th
Harbours in acrylics - June 24th & 25th
Flowers in acrylic inks and pastels - July 28th - 30th

A page has been added with photos and information on the studio now for those who wish to see what the result of months of alterations has come to.

I will  be teaching a week long mixed media course at Dedham hall from 5 - 12 April 2008. We will be exploring all aspects of mixed media work with great emphasis on texture. For details of this course and a catalogue of their painting courses please call Jim and Wendy Sarton on 01206 323027

I have recently moved to my new studio at the Fairground Craft and Design centre in Weyhill/Andover, where I will be working and holding painting workshops. The first workshop on Mixed media will be held on the 12/13 January 2008 from 10.30 - 4.30 exploring different aspects of working with different media in one piece of work.  For application form please contact me by phone or email. Studio address and telephone number is as follows

Fairground Craft and Design Centre

Weyhill,  Andover, SP11 0NQ 01264 772000

Sennelier Extra Fine Oil Colours Offer

Look out for my articles on Sennelier oils in the next three issues of The Artist Magazine and take advantage of the Sennelier offer, the oils are absolutely wonderful to use, and  by the end of the 4 months you will have a really balanced palette of colours to work with.

Dedham 5 - 12 April 2008 Mixed media workshop

I will be at Dedham hall in April 2008, those of you who would like to experiment with Acrylic inks and play around with texture come and join me for the week.

30-Minute Acrylics

My first book is finally out, it was a great experience to write it, and I hope there will be other ones to follow. If you happen to get a copy, it will be great to have your feed back, send me an email with your comments. Those of you who have ordered one, the book will be with you shortly.

Dec 06 issue of The Artist Magazine pastels with an acrylic base

Jan 07 Issue of The Artist Magazine FW Acrylic inks 

June Issue of The Artist magazine, introducing a whole range of products from “Schmincke” to create exciting textures with watercolours, also primers to enable you to paint on canvas with watercolours.

July Issue of The Artist magazine, introducing Sennelier oil sticks, beautiful sticks of creamy colour which glide across the paper, with an opportunity of trying them out in my two workshops at the Art Material Live  at the NEC Birmingham on Saturday 10 November 10 - 1 or 2-5

details in the July Issue of The Artist Magazine

Forthcoming articles in The Artist magazine, October , November, December and January, articles regarding Sennelier extra fine oil colours, with special offers from Sennelier

Issue 4 of StarArt a new publication from The Artist and The Leisure Painter available quarterly from WH Smith, simple landscape demonstration in pastels

July issue of The Paint Magazine FW Acrylic inks

I will be demonstrating various techniques at The Artist and The Leisure Painter marquee  on Sat and Sun 21 and 22 July. It is a great event,  I hope to see you there.

My first book, 30-minute acrylic published by HarperCollins will be available from 3 September. Check out the details in the book page!

The following pages have been updated recently: gallery, workshops & demos, the book, links and contact me. More will be added soon.