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Birds

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From Sketchbook to Studio - Tuscany Retreat

From Sketchbook to Studio - Rotterdam

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Birds

Food

Animals

Sketchbooks

From Sketchbook to Studio - Tuscany Retreat

From Sketchbook to Studio - Rotterdam

Private Group Workshops

Schools & Community

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Birds

Food

Animals

Sketchbooks

Folder: Stories

From Sketchbook to Studio - Tuscany Retreat

From Sketchbook to Studio - Rotterdam

Private Group Workshops

Schools & Community

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She stands on newspaper, talc dusts old headlines as she powders herself dry. Moving slowly, layers quietly drawn. A threadbare knit, practical trousers, dark green socks, tatty brown brogues that have seen better days. Without chat or eye-contact, s

The calm regulars, the expletive shouters, the yodelling divers, the take-a-breath and launch off the ladders, down two rungs and glide. The perfected techniques. The motivators ‘Come on, you can do it. It’s fine once you’re in.&rsq

The scraps, the swatches, the trials and errors, the ‘what if I…?’, the bits that didn’t make the cut but helped to get there, the ones that will likely end up buried in a drawer… as important as the finished pieces.

Oil black. It slips under the dark surface, gone without announcement. Re-emerging at unexpected distance, fish in beak, periscope neck surveying potential lunch thieves.

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‘I’m sorry, was that your bucket?’

’I even went back to work part-time and my husband’s parents were angry as they thought I should’ve been staying at home to raise their grandson. And my husband didn’t even

Rolling down a wet costume, feet in a washing up bowl
Emulsion paint, oil stick and pencil on paper
297 x 420mm

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Peel off neoprene skin, rolling down grip to inside-out blubber. One off, then two. Bare feet slide easily into tub, soles revived by warm containment whilst three layers of clothes inelegantly slip back on over head.

Towel between spread toes lifte

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