Drawing?… It all started for me with a roll of old lining paper and a packet of crayons, at the age of about 5, probably an attempt from my parents to stop me drawing on the wallpaper. I always had a vivid imagination, others have said weird (which I’m not disputing).The urge has been there […]
I discovered the joy of working with clay by chance. I was trudging home from my weekly shopping in the Portobello Road when I noticed a muddy front door at the top of a flight of stone steps. The door was part open so I gave it a push and walked in. Inside was a […]
‘When reality is replaced with dreams. When Earth is a memory. Look further. Look deeper. And find her again. She is us, we are her. Since Time began. Until Time ends.’ (poem, j.pitt) The present is a very strange place to exist. We are facing things in a way that humanity has not really faced […]
I am Robin Mackenzie, a printmaker and illustrator, based in the beautiful county of Dorset. I rent a studio in the historic Walford Mill on the outskirts of Wimborne and from here I create traditional wood engravings and linocuts. I alternate between black and white pieces and full colour prints with sizes ranging from just […]
While I am best known for my domestic pottery I have really enjoyed working in other media this year so I was very pleased to have some of my new designs accepted for display at the Devon Guilds “Pattern” exhibition in Bovey Tracy. It has been a great motivator to have a deadline to complete […]
A close neighbour of Tiffany, our paths meet only occasionally as we are both so busy with our respective creative endeavours. I am an Encaustic Wax Artist, and before you say, “oh, that’s with an iron, a small block of pigmented wax and card”? Well, no actually. Whilst that method is called encaustic wax painting, […]
I thought it would be really nice to start to profile artists that I admire from all across the wide ranges of art. Here it made sense for me to start with my father Colin Scull. My dad who is now based in Newquay in Cornwall is still carving at over seventy years of age […]