Portraits and dance

Great to have spent some time with National Dance Company Wales developing/rehearsing In Tandem - a beautiful, multidisciplinary production, featuring Infinity Duet , created by choreographer Faye Tan and artist...

Here are a few pictures made with my Sunday Life Drawing group over the past few months. Quick charcoal drawings (and a little oil sketch) of three to twenty minutes...

Lovely portrait session with Gaia Cicolani and her playful alter ego Miss B. Recently. Experimenting with the improvisation techniques I more often use when working with dance, Miss B. responded...

Was very lucky to spend some time bobbing around Europe visiting friends and museums this September. A most inspiring trip, which included the discovery of some wonderful artists I’d never...

Very belated post about a lively afternoon with Ballet Cymru associate dancers Gwen, Beth and Lily last year - beautiful dancers who began the session with a passage of familiar...

Very happy that Sunday Life Drawing has settled down into a (fairly) regular fortnightly event. Sessions are not formally tutored, though the space is very supportive and open to artists...

Great session with Ballet Cymru company dancers Jakob Myers, Jethro Paine, Sanea Singh and Kotone Sugiyama, filming passages of improvisation and experimenting with new approaches to creating compositions - including...

Great to have been able to work with dancers Amy Groves and Kasia Sambrook during their time with Ballet Cymru’s Pre-Professionals Programme. Moving very slowing, the dancers improvised together, responding...

An assortment of recent sketches made variously with Ballet Cymru, lifedrawing with Cardiff Umbrella, and Zoom portraiture sessions with Singulart - the latter involving artists around the world posing for...

Based on text prepared for Criw Celf’s online summer school, 2020, supported by Arts Council of Wales, I’ve written a few tips for young artists looking to develop their figure...