
Proud to be a new SSA professional artist member 2025
Last month, I tentatively applied to become a fully fledged Professional Artist member of the SSA.

How Nicholas Wilton and ART2LIFE changed my life
Sometimes when we are at you are at your most lost, the Universe answers your question with an opportunity. Browsing facebook, I came across Nicholas Wilton from ART2LIFE who was running a free week long course as a taster for his yearly abstract painting course called Creative Visionary process (or CVP for short). I watched the videos on design, value and colour and followed the live calls and suddenly I started to see the world through new eyes.

Chatting with Nicholas Wilton on Art 2 Life Kitchen Table Art Project
Last night was an exciting evening for me, as I had been invited to appear as a guest artist on the ART2LIFE weekly Kitchen Table Art Project video call. The theme was Slowing Down and was all about our relationship with gardening and how we notice and live with nature in our daily lives. More specifically we spoke about ways in which we could use these things as inspiration for our new art works.

Virtual Open Studio Event
This weekend sees the start of the WASPS open studios events in Glasgow, spread over different weekends throughout October.
See the website here for more information :
WASPS Open Studios 2015
This year, Southblock Studios, where I…

Frauleinwunder Article
Last month, I was contacted by a German magazine called Frauleinwunderlich (Girl Wonder), a magazine for pin-ups, rockabilly girls and burlesque stars...and artists that like all of these things! They wanted to do a feature on my paintings, and who was I to refuse such a kind invitation?
They did a wonderful job of the two spreads, really showing off my paintings of Leyla Rose, Daiquiri Dusk, Miss Hell's Belle and me (of all people). I was amazed that they printed the whole article that I wrote. I love how the issue was called their herzblut issue (meaning doing things with a passion).
