Category: Blog – Artwork in progress

Oxford Amateur Boxing Club This wasn’t my first project with OMAA (Oxford Martial Arts Academy). If you scroll back through my blog or head over to my instagram page you will find the previous project. There’s something uniquely powerful about taking a logo, and scaling it up into a mural…

End of year teacher notebooks I recently finished a small batch of 9 custom painted notebooks — I love making these notebooks as I feel they bring together everything I love within my art: personalisation, colour, and the small details. When I first started making these it was a little…

The process and technique Glacier Des Deux Alpes began with a simple pencil sketch, mapping out the flow, peaks and slopes to lay the base of this piece. From there, the sky was blocked in with acrylics — broad strokes of blues, greys and whites to create a striking contrast…

I took on this commission back in June as a painting from a photograph. 40cm x 30cm canvas painted in acrylic paint. This order did take a little longer than planned due to time constraints and thankfully my client was more than understanding. The hardest part of this piece was…

This instrument is a Berimbau which is commonly used in the traditional music and martial art of Capoeira. I was asked back in August to personalise this beautiful instrument consisting of 3 parts, the cabaca (dome shape), the verga (stick) and the caxixi (shaker). The brief was a black painted…

What is thread painting? Basically the art of making a picture out of different embroidery stitches and thread. I came across this one day on an Instagram scroll and its safe to say I was inspired. I’ve always been into painting or drawing but I have found I struggle to…

After starting this piece back in October, I unfortunately soon found myself at a creative block. I got the outline completed, completed the sky, started on the sand, sea and deck chairs then stopped. A random free day found me adding real sand to the actual sand part of the…

This marks the start of a really exciting project for me and to get back painting on canvas with my trusty acrylic paint. I don’t really know why I stopped painting but I put it down to a lack of time (working full time then having my children would do…