'Just make some marks' said Nial Adams at the workshop I was attending, billed as 'How to Paint with Oils like the Old Masters'.  I'd been very much looking forward…

At the end of a great workshop with Niall Adams, I had a very impressive sky on one half of the canvas but little else.  It was quite dark and…

This delightful seascape emerged from a pastel workshop with Geoff Thorpe at which I was more an observer than participant.  I was working at the venue's gift shop that day,…

'Say what you see!'  It seemed obvious when thinking of a title for this newcomer to my catalogue of works; the painting is simply two pretty little robins perched in…