Musings
Kay Nielsen - was said to be “the only living artist who can draw a troll”
Kay Nielsen 1886 - 1957 A extremely new and exciting master of fairytale illustration I have just discovered. I usually recycle all my old pin ups I loved growing up or who my art teacher at sch...
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Sunday Times Home on Working From Home
What you were making and where you were working during lockdown - a studio? at home? - and whether you used the time to develop anything new? We created a semi wework / shared studio space at...
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Aubrey Beardsley A Sickly, Strange Man
Aubrey Beardsley 1872 - 1898 A sickly, strange man with a child like fixation of sex, he produced illustrations that where darkly beautiful, erotic and grotesque. But there is an elegance and gr...
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The Maverick Botanist Nicolas Culpepper 1616-1654 He grew up in the English countryside, his grandfather was the village priest and believed that if you fell ill it was gods punishment. This no...
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Autumn Dinner Party Sunday Telegraph Interview
Q&A – how do you decorate your table for an autumn party? Placemats/ cutlery/ flowers/ name cards all that kind of stuff, or maybe she likes to be more low key.... I think the decoration and ...
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Mural Painting in the Time of Corona
I have been saying for a while now I want to paint a mural.. It was one one those things I would just put off and off (a bit like this e-journal). In light of this current global lockdown I reall...
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