A first for us this week with a custom made holiday for Nick and Glynis’s 40th wedding anniversary. Glynis looked a little shell shocked when they arrived . Surpri-ise! – although very relieved it didn’t involve golf clubs. Nick had told me that they only wanted to paint in the mornings allowing them to explore...Read More
Julie joined us for a week of painting and some medieval fayre at the Corsa all spada festival in Camerino. Here are some of her great pictures, as well as Muffin taking her fifteen minutes in the limelight posing on the vespa. A prada bag has recently (since...Read More
Val and Nerina There’s something about Yorkshire humour, add a little Teutonic surrealism and you have a cracking combination. Sally among the poppies Val came to celebrate her birthday with her friends Sally and Isobel (I can only draw rabbits) They...Read More
We have just finished our April course and much fun was had by all. Of course the weather in April can be unpredictable and we did have to consider lashing the artists to the easels on a couple of days. Refuge was found in the studio and the trusty vespa came up trumps again. ...Read More
Here are a few snaps I took on the way to pick up Maisie from swimming this evening. Our first course starts tomorrow, so the house has been scrubbed until it’s bones show. It’s nice to get out for a bit. Read More
Since our photos are proving quite popular I’ve formatted some as wallpaper which you are welcome to download. Choose your image, click on it to enlarge on it, right click and view image, right click again and select set as wallpaper – job done. (or use ‘save image as’) If you do use them I...Read More
Our first trip to Camerino since the big freeze, for a little extraction, both dental and financial (I really hate paying for pain). The whole town was adrip. From every eave handsome iciles were succumbing to the February sun. Those renaissance guys, fine with chiarascuro and golden section, not so good with roof insulation. ...Read More
Perhaps it’s all this snow, but this has been the week that I have finally admitted that, you know what, I am sick of minimalism. We have had about a metre of the powdery stuff for about a week, and I am happy to report that the UK is not the only country to grind...Read More
We have just finished our first Drawing for Beginners course of the year. As always I am astonished by the results that the students managed in just a week. We had a very reduced group due to a late cancellation, which meant that I was able to spend more time with each student and we...Read More
