Elizabeth Forbes (1859-1912)
I’ve just read “Singing From the Walls”, a biography of the Victorian/Edwardian painter Elizabeth Forbes. It’s a wonderful, touching, sad...
Life study drawing
Life study, Jan 2017, 20-minute drawing in pencil on cartridge paper.
Gwen John
Gwen John is one of my favourite painters of all time. Her portraits – often repeating the same poses with the same models over and over...
Dave
I drew this little pencil drawing of Bowie over the Christmas holiday, going through loads of live footage to find an image someone had...
Getting Naked
Life drawing is something I have done for a quarter of a century and more. It’s the best thing I do. I find the level of concentration...
a cold day near Paris...
This is one of the most touching photographs in history I think. It shows two men sat at a table, out of doors, on the banks of the Seine...
Lucian Freud: big baby.
Nearly twenty years ago, my wife was in hospital, about to give birth to my third and youngest son Tom. It was June. There weren't many...
art & craft on the rise?
The photo shows a queue at a local art and craft supply shop I was in recently. People are queueing for the tills. The narrow aisles are...
