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Since Art Fair East last December, I seem to have fallen into one of those slumps that many artists experience, when I’ve lost my sense of direction, I can’t seem to get myself going and wonder what the hell I am doing. I know, or have learnt, that the only way through a period likeContinue reading “Getting going again…”

Art Fair East 2016, 1st- 4th December at St Andrews Hall, Norwich Hertfordshire based Langley End Studio Artists, Gill Ayre, Jo Howe and Karen Picton have been selected from international submissions to exhibit in Art Fair East, one of the major regional art fairs in the UK. Art Fair East’s co-founder Will Teather said: “We are delightedContinue reading “Hertfordshire-Based Langley End Studio Group Selected for Art Fair East, a major art fair for the East Of England”

In 2015 I moved into a new studio at Langley End, near Hitchin, North Hertfordshire, with two very talented artists, Jo Howe, and Karen Picton. On Sunday 17th April 2016 we threw our doors open to the public, along with the fabulous Thornhill Jewellery located on the same site, and over the course of theContinue reading “One studio, well and truly warmed!”

What is this work about? Why black and white? Thoughts of death and loss and grief; a stark, colourless experience. What about the process – why layers? why pouring? Challenging the need to control life and learning to be more open to allow things to ‘be’, to take on their own direction. Constantly re definingContinue reading “Musings on my latest paintings November 2015 – April 2016”