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Jackson's Art Prize 2026
Extremely excited to have 3 of my submissions chosen for the Extended Longlist for the Jackson's Art Prize.
My entries are:
- Illumination
- Captivation
- Suspension
All details and prices for these paintings can be found on my Current Curated page.
Spring Workshops
Something for everyone
I have a new series of standalone Still Life workshops starting in April with Painting Clear and Coloured Glass, which are suitable for absolute beginners to experienced artists.
If you are an intermediate or advanced student, then you are welcome to join the Landscape Project workshops on Fridays at any time. These provide a great opportunity to move your pastel painting onto the next stage, encouraging you to develop your own project and introduce more originality into your work.
You will find details of the topics, dates and costs, on my Workshops page. If you want to know more, or to book please call me on 07731 476760.
Pastel Demonstration
Experimental, Pastels into Paint
This was one of the demonstrations at my recent exhibition. A fun session illustrating the versatility of pastel as a medium, using it with alcohol to form paint, for a way of creating expressive and lively paintings.
The demonstration was loose and expressive and completely unlike pastel work, so quite interesting for people to watch, whilst showing people a start to finish piece of work.
Sue Owen kindly took photos of the demonstration, which accurately show the stages of the painting.
1. Having put pastel on the paper I then brushed alcohol all over it to make the paper quite wet and then manipulated the paper, moving it around to get the drips happening in different directions.
2. When that was dry, I started putting dry pastel over the top and building the layers of pastel colours.
3. When I had completed the dry pastel stage, the final stage was where I crumbled some pastels into a little container, which I then mixed with isopropyl alcohol. This turned into an opaque paint, which I then used quite wet, just dripping and splashing more colour onto the painting.
4. The finished "splashy" piece.
5. A pencil and a colour sketch and my test piece in preparation for the demonstration, with the piece on the easel I actually did during the demonstration.
These demonstrations were so well received, I plan to do more on Thursday mornings starting in March. No need to book, just turn up, grab a coffee and a cake in the café if you like and come along. Best way to find out when they are on is to sign up to my newsletter.
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