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My Painting Process
Giving a behind the scenes look at what I do to create my paintings.
As an artist, I’m often asked what my “style” is. In all honesty, I have real trouble answering this question. It’s not that I don’t like answering it or anything, just that answering it always feels a bit pretentious to me and, dare I say it, overly complicated. Why pretentious? Well, I’ve never been into…
Welcome to the first post in my Diary of a Painting series, where I will explore why I created a particular painting and the thought and creative processes behind it. To start things off we have one of my favourites: The Seven Sisters. Who wouldn’t want to paint this iconic view? But that was the…
As you know, I predominantly paint pet portraits, with the odd bird, wolf, landscape or inanimate object thrown in for good measure. Recently though I’ve wanted to broaden my horizons and do more portraits, only of people this time. Now, a portrait of an actual person is a whole different matter compared to what I…