I am currently taking part in a ten day challenge to publish posts on a theme for 10 consecutive days. I am giving more detail about my posts on the blog. My theme is The Colour of Landscape. In After an introduction of my background (Days 1-3) I have started showing the process of my journey back to my oil painting roots. (Even though I had never painted landscapes!) Day 5: One has to revisit basics in order to move forward, so I needed to go back to more naturalistic compositions and … [Read more...]

I am currently taking part in a ten day challenge to publish posts on a theme for 10 consecutive days. I am giving more detail about my posts on the blog. My theme is The Colour of Landscape. In Days 1 - 3 I introduced my thoughts about landscape and showed my background as a Word Artist. Day 4 The Colour of Landscape In my first year back at painting in oils I did a multitude of small 'Daily Painting Still Lifes'. My fine arts degree in oil painting went back so many years that when I … [Read more...]

This is Day 3 of the Instagram #tendaychallenge and I was nominated by su@bonfanti, who was a part of my ‘Artists’ books journey’ ten years ago. I would like to nominate @ronniecruwys. I am posting on my blog to add information to my Instagram posts. Day 3 If I don't mention my years as a lettering artist / book artist, there will be a massive gap in my story, even though the theme is The Colour of Landscape. I guess my for much of my artistic career, my landscape was words, fine lettering and … [Read more...]

I am honoured to have been nominated to do the #tendaychallenge by su@bonfanti. As a sequel to the Instagram posts I am giving more detail on my blog. Day 2:  As a young artist in South Africa in the 70’s we took inspiration from the UK and USA (refer to Modernists and Mavericks by Gayford, to get the mood!). Our work was abstract, hard-edge and explored shapes and space. Forty-five years later, in 2016, I came back to oils as an art teacher, graphic designer and word artist, never … [Read more...]

This blog is a sequel to the Instagram Ten Day Challenge. I was nominated by Su Bonfanti to take part in this on Instagram @linkerrdesign and I decided to 'flesh it out a little on my blog'. Su and I go back a number of years to a small artist's bookmaking group 'Open Books which ran for about ten years. It finished up when I moved away to Oxfordshire and Su went to Wimbledon to do a masters degree in Drawing.  The theme I have decided on is ‘The colour of landscape’ I fell in love … [Read more...]