by catherine | Sep 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
So this is for a bit of fun, but the Society of Equine Artists has opened its annual exhibtion this week, award ceremony this Sunday. These are my picks for the prize winners, not including myself obviously!!You can see the whole exhibition online at...
by catherine | Aug 25, 2015 | Drawings, equine art, oil painting
Equine ArtSummer is fading, and the kids are about to start back at school, including my youngest in her slightly too big pinafore and pristine white socks. I feel sad to see her go but it does mean I will now have five days a week to work, uninterrupted. Five days!!...
by catherine | Jun 24, 2015 | Drawings, equine art, oil painting
The time has come..I have to replace my old easel. I first picked him up in Florence, part of a job lot being replaced by the Charles H. Cecil Studio where I had been studying. I was setting up a realist summer art school with James Napier, in London, and we bought...
by catherine | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
What to wear?I cannot claim any expertise in fashion world, but it is something I struggle with before every event! ‘What to wear?! How do you marry smart with artistic? Businesslike, but creative? I seem to be trying to balance two extremes.I googled ‘How...
by catherine | May 22, 2015 | oil painting
What makes an artist ‘talented’?I recently watched this Ted talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of the bestseller ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ It touched a nerve, as I really empathise with her subject, that an artist does not have to be a mentally...
