Festa Italia pavement art

Lancaster BID pavement art commission

In September 2021 I was commissioned by Lancaster BID to undertake a piece of Italian themed pavement art for Festa Italia in Lancaster. My pavement artwork was inspired by the landscapes and sunflowers of Tuscany. I used a bright and complimentary colour ...

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Collaborative Sketchbook with Tanya Raabe-Webber

Earlier this year I was selected by Tanya Raabe-Webber to be one of six artists to participate in her ACE funded Collaborative Sketchbook project. Throughout the year we each created nature inspired artworks in the sketchbook and the other has then respo ...

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Art & Nature

July 19th is so-called ‘freedom day’ in England. It marks the relaxation of COVID restrictions that have been in place since March 2020 when the national lockdown was first announced.    While most people probably expected the end of lockdown t ...

Wagon & Horses Mural

Mural painting 2020

https://youtu.be/BtuLBLNTNqw In summer of 2020 I got the opportunity to paint a mural at the Wagon & Horses in Lancaster. The mural was commissioned via King Street Studio. Myself and fellow associate artist Grace Owen offered our services. We each dr ...

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NAS Christmas card winning design

Earlier this year I entered the NAS Christmas card competition. At the beginning of Lockdown I found out that my design was selected as and finalist and went to a public vote on social. I was over the moon to received the news that my design had won! My ...

preparing for launch

Over the last couple of months, I have been busy trying to get to grips with building a website and preparing for launching a online business! As a bit of technophobe, this has been somewhat of a steep learning curve. Thank goodness I know people who are ...

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Milnthorpe Art Exhibtion

This month I entered three pieces into the North West’s largest open art exhibition, Milnthorpe Art Exhibition. This was the first time that I had entered and as it is a juried exhibition I had no idea whether any of my entries would be selected. &nb ...

Violets painted with Chinese paint

Art Exhibition at The Storey

This month I have shown a selection of my recently created ‘Flower a Day’ collection in an exhibition run by @british_art_exhibitions at @the_storey_lancaster.  This was the first time, since my degree show in 2003, that I have displayed my artwork ...

Rose painted with Chinese paint

Flower a Day Challenge

Throughout the month of May, I have been creating and sharing floral artwork each day.  I decided to undertake this challenge to push myself to make time every day to create art and to learn more about sharing my work on social media.  This was ...