I am very pleased to have a painting accepted for this years Bury Open 2025. The exhibition will run from 15 November 2025 to 21 February 2026 so there is plenty of opportunity to go and see all of the incredible works from local artists. In the last Bury Open they had over 400 high …
This year I decided to start 2025 with a few guiding aspirations. In the past years began with either no specific goals, or with huge goals. The huge goals seemed impossible to tackle after the first few days and so I gave up. Having no goals also left me floundering and not achieving as much …
https://youtu.be/VzthNRpG7SU A Post-Impressionist Journey Today I am exploring how the Post impressionists have inspired my three most recent paintings. These paintings have been inspired by the bold and expressive work of the Post-Impressionist masters—Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Suzanne Valadon. Each of these artists had a unique approach to color, form, and …
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During 2023 and 2024, I became interested in the Cubist movement and spent a lot of time incorporating Cubist elements into my paintings. I experimented with a structured geometric style, fractured surfaces, hard edges, and geometric shapes. Pendleton Church by Rachel Crawshaw 2024 This year, I have taken a tentative step away from Cubism and …
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This week I have started a little personal project to explore the world of collage. I'm specifically exploring how I can incorporate collage techniques into mixed media artworks. To do this I am planning on making a collage a day for 100 days! I am using the course "Celebrate Your Creative self- mixed media art …
Over the past few weeks in my life drawing groups at Hush Art Group in Clitheroe and Life Drawing Blackburn I have been experimenting with layering figures on top of each other and using negative space to create these graphic images- the drawings can be turned in different directions and as you look different figures …
Here is my latest painting based on a photograph of tulips. I enjoyed sitting and painting this in the garden over a few days during quarantine. Here is the photograph I based my painting upon. I didn't use a grid this time to help me draw the image first, I just drew it free hand …
Over the past few months I have been attending the Blackburn Artists society on Thursday Evenings. Each week we are given a "theme" to work with from chickens to sky scrapers and we've recently been out on location drawing the amateur dramatics society during a live dress rehearsal! I've really loved attending Blackburn artists society …
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This week I made these three hand drawn and hand painted original Christmas cards with coordinating gift tags! Take a look at description below- these items are available to purchase with postage to the UK included! If you are interested in having some Christmas cards, other greetings cards, junk journals or original art works custom …
This is my abstract, mixed media tulips canvas. The canvas measures 16 x 20 inches. This original painting is made using acrylic paints applied thickly using a palette knife, over a layered and textured mixed media back ground. The painting depicts a bunch of pink tulips on a lilac background, with thick textured petals and …
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