One of the most difficult things about colour at the beginning is being able to see colour as value. To ignore the hue and how intense the colour is and see it as just value. What value is that apple exactly? Is it light or dark? How much darker is the shadow side that the
Why Understanding Colour Frees You To Paint How You Like
When I teach colour, I teach it through a combination of modelling factors and showing people how to match the colours they see as closely as they possibly can. This image below shows what I mean by modelling factors, in case you haven’t come across the term before. It’s a way of breaking down form
Pink and Yellow
First painting in my new studio. It was a while coming, and a while finishing too! This painting is up for auction here.
Why Limit Your Palette?
Be careful of bold statements made by apparent experts. So much of art talk is people repeating what they’ve heard or read somewhere else, without bothering to test it for themselves. I’ve taken bad advice a few times, especially when I was starting out. So I decided a long time ago that I would only
Why is it so hard to finish a painting?
I’ve been working on this painting for five days now. At the beginning, I was feeling a mixture of excitement and anxiety, as I usually do. Excitement at what the picture could be, and anxiety that I won’t be able to get it there. When I’m working on a painting for more than a day,
Dream Big, Take Small Steps
We’re snowed in again and the power has gone. I’m looking out over a landscape made fresh by deep snow. A new year is here. And as always, with it comes the urge to make changes. Usually, we try to make big changes. Often, a few of them at once. Which, you know as well
Give yourself permission (to take the one big step you need to take)
I’m profoundly grateful to you. If you’re reading this, I want you to know that. If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know I’ve had a few wobbles in the last couple of years. Now I wake up every day to breathtakingly beautiful countryside and a happy family. And the thing is, I
Winter in Uley
At first, I was slightly disappointed that we’d arrived in Uley right at the end of Autumn. It was stunningly beautiful, but it was a transitory beauty that was already changing quickly into winter. The golden leaves were falling and the trees were a little more bare every day. It made me sad because we
Working on my “Na”
I was sitting on the floor of a small home in Kolkata, northern India, where I’d be staying for the next three months. I had my tabla ready in front of me. I had no idea what to expect. Jayanta, my new tabla teacher, had just seated himself opposite me. He didn’t speak a word
Getting Started
Uley Bury, an iron age hill fort, behind Uley village 8:30 AM. We’re in the car, taking the kids to school. As we drive up the steep, narrow, twisty road out of the Uley valley and on to the edge of the Cotswolds escarpment I catch my breath at the natural splendour of this place,
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