The Technology of Enchantment The aim of this blog is to give you, as the artist or the spectator an understanding of the technology of...

Mum its ‘not hip’ to use technique in painting My daughter said to me recently, ‘Mum technique in painting is not considered important...

The world loves Monet and his peers – bringing colour and light into the world – an optic sensation. Like all great movements, the French...

Over the coming weeks I will explore the strong case for the observation of nature as a basis for a painters training.   From Giotto to...

With all my years of teaching and painting experience, there still remains a fascination for the use of under painting. By under painting...

Artists throughout the millennium have sought to illuminate their message through illusion and trickery of the eye and mind. The artist...

Neuroscience in more recent times has shone a light on  the incredible capacity of the human brain to adapt and relearn by stimulating...