Visual Artist
A gentle look back at your creative year can reveal more than you expect. This post explores how reflection can help you recognise patterns, rediscover ideas and appreciate your progress.
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Collage is a powerful way to explore composition. Learn how moving paper shapes helps you build confidence, strengthen intuition and make clearer creative decisions.
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For everyone who couldn’t come to the Open Studio weekend – here’s a little tour through my studio.
I’ll take you behind the scenes and show how I set up the space, what I exhibited, and a few of the projects I’m currently exploring.
In this interview, British mixed-media artist and creativity coach Julia Weston shares insights into her artistic journey, from her early beginnings in London to her current life by the sea in Clevedon. She talks about her love for working with gel plate prints, painting, collage, and sketchbooks as a space for freedom and exploration. Julia also reflects on how her environment, daily practices, and a 30-day sketchbook challenge inspire her evolving body of work.
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When a collage feels “off,” it’s hard to know what to change. Discover how four essential design principles can help you create stronger compositions.
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A behind-the-scenes look at how I store my collage materials — from size-based boxes to color-coded scraps and project trays. Plus, why I love creating my own collage papers and how you can start doing it too.
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It’s a great pleasure to introduce a special guest to our community.
I’m talking to UK artist Karen Stamper. Karen is known for her unique collages and paintings that capture the essence of urban landscapes, coastlines, harbours and boats. Her work celebrates the beauty of worn surfaces and textures.
Karen’s particular technique involves layering, cutting and deconstructing materials. This process gives each work its own dynamic personality. She works with found and painted paper and paint, which she constantly reworks and reassembles.
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I am delighted to welcome a very special guest to our community.
Based in Norwich, UK, Sally Hirst creates works on paper and mixed media paintings inspired by the textures, colours and structures of the urban environment.
Her work is strongly influenced by the Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetic, which sees beauty in transience, imperfection and incompleteness.
Sally emphasises the importance of time, both through the patina of the materials and the lengthy creative process.
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I am so pleased to welcome a special guest to our community.
Sarah Z Short is a collage artist and printmaker from the woods of Rhode Island. Her background as an English teacher explains her love of books, which she also enjoys using as the primary material for her collages.
Sarah works with found paper and ephemera, utilizing the stories of the past in her contemporary art. She begins many of her pieces by printing with wooden type on pages rescued from discarded books.
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Creating art is not only an activity that brings joy, but also an essential practice for the continuous development and refinement of your skills.
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I am so pleased to welcome a special guest to our community.
Marabeth Quin is a self-taught artist from Nashville, Tennessee, embarked on her artistic journey in 2007, introducing her vibrant and captivating works to the world.
Marabeth sees art as a profound exploration of the world, using a rich tapestry of subjects, materials, and platforms. Her artistic process inspires personal integration, embracing imperfection and fostering resilience and self-compassion.
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Our art develops through the influences we absorb, and the works of other artists can be an invaluable source of inspiration. But how can we be inspired without falling into the trap of copying?
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