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The Tutors Exhibition at macbirmingham is in it’s last week closing on Sun 9 Jun. It been beautifully curated and also shows the very diverse range of creative talents that we Artist Tutors bring to our roles working at macbirmingham. It’s inspiring I tell ya! Catch the last week if you can x

Swifts Kimono

On Saturday 18th May 2019 The Tutors Exhibition Sat 18 May – Sun 9 Jun at macbirmingham opens and in it will be one of my pattern design pieces and products – would you like to hear the story of how it came about? I recently watched The Creative Brain on Netflix, which advocated the importance of […]

Winterbourne House and Garden Residency

Just popping in with a few catch-up pieces from my residency at Winterbourne House and Garden. It’s been hard to catch a good time to be out painting because of the sudden changes in weather and temperature. One solution has been to work in miniature, although these paintings still take quite a time.   Everything […]

Laos – Luang Prabang

Finally on our epic Asia trip was the very lovely Luang Prabang in Laos. By this time we had clocked up something like 2 train trips, 1 boat trip, 7 flights, one car ride and 9 changes of hotel so staying in one small place for a few days was a very welcome end to […]

Cambodia

After 7 nights in Vietnam we took a short hop across to Phnom Penh, Cambodia which is a big sprawling city. We went to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (no photos allowed which is the right, respectful thing)  which was educational, challenging and chilling – the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime put to death nearly two […]

Vietnam

Our next destination was Vietnam and we arrived on the Friday night of Chinese New Year to find it heaving with people and traffic – quite the cultural baptism. The traffic in Hanoi is unbelievable and it took us a while to perfect our technique of crossing the road – step out slowly not daring […]

Malaysia Jan 2019

Back in January I took the biggest trip of my life – and it began with a rendezvous with my girl in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We travelled up from KL to Ipoh and then right up to Penang in the North and so we saw the culture, architecture, food and arts change from Islamic influenced […]

Introductions

Still catching up my blog – back in January I re-introduced myself on Instagram after realising that even my old friends weren’t really sure what I do day-to-day. So here it is for any of you who’d like to know too 😉 Hi friends, family and followers HNY! I met an old friend who’d I’d […]

Catch up 1

Dear neglected blog – I never meant to be gone so long. I know blogs aren’t the go-to place that they used to be but I still value mine and use it as a diary of events often. So with that in mind I intend to catch up on the last 4 months beginning with […]