Highlights of Cambridge: Show over!

I have now had a few days to recover from putting on an art show, so here are my thoughts. 1) Well, that wasn’t so bad. 2) Monetary calculation. 3) Wait, that is almost minimum wage. 4) Push the boat

News from the Studio

The big news that I have is the Eat Cambridge festival, now running towards its conclusion; I was fortunate enough to paint some of the illustrations for the brochure, including the main picture on the back. The pdf is available

Sold! Watercolour Notebook

This week I sold my portrait notebook, an unfinished Moleskine of the smallest size. I had restricted it to facial studies and life-drawing sketches, and I had some good feedback along with the sale. From now on I will be

Agents!

Recently I have finally felt I have enough work to send away to agents. My first polite refusal came back today. I am oddly proud of it – it means that I sent something off. I cannot expect immediate success,

Cambridge Art Fair: Roundup

Our art fair over the weekend was very good fun, but for me was not worth the time invested. I learned which of my reindeer cards were popular, but I did not manage to sell enough to cover babysitting costs.

Sold! Five items

I said goodbye to several of my favourite pieces last night. An old friend with decent wall space told me to ‘bring blue on blue and anything else you are proud of’. I am glad it is someone I like

More Angry Reindeers

I really did not realise that Reindeer with strange antlers would be quite so popular. Rudolph and his strange cronies were nearly my sole source of income this month, which was good as it meant I had a source of