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Indigo Tarran 5
Oil on canvas
45cm x 35cm -
Fay Burnett
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Indigo Taran 3
Oil on panel
18cm x 23cm -
Portraiture workshop at Machynlleth Comedy Festival 2025
May 6, 2025Wonderful work by festival artists and sitters Amy Matthews and Mikey Bligh-Smith at this year’s Machynlleth Comedy Festival portraiture workshop. Lovely mix of poses - some fairly traditional, others found... -
Indigo Taran 2
Oil on panel
23cm x 30cm -
Indigo Taran
Oil on panel
23cm x 18cm -
Miss B. Strikes Again
Oil on canvas
30cm x 36cm -
In Tandem - National Dance Company Wales
February 12, 2025Great 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... -
Miss B.
Oil on canvas
30cm x 36cm -
Life drawing
January 14, 2025Here 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... -
Sofia Pereira De Oliveira
Oil on canvas
40cm x 50cm -
Miss B.
December 12, 2024Lovely 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... -
Mika George Evans
Oil on panel
27cm x 11cm
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Sanea Singh
Oil on canvas
18cm x 23cm -
Gwen Davies
Oil on panel
18cm x 28cm -
Travel sketches
October 10, 2024Was 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... -
Amy Groves and Kasia Sambrook Improvisation 20
Oil on canvas
41cm x 31cm -
Angharad Harrop 23
Oil on canvas
61cm x 76cm -
Collaboration with Gwen, Beth and Lily
February 26, 2024Very 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... -
Lily 4
oil on panel
23cm x 18cm -
Lily
Oil on panel
23cm x 18cm -
Sofia sketch
Oil on panel
18cm x 23cm -
Jakob Myers, Jethro Paine, Sanea Singh and Kotone Sugiyama improvisation 2
Oil on canvas
36cm x 31cm -
Jakob Myers and Kotone Sugiyama
Oil on panel
11.5cm x 15cm -
Summer School 5
Oil on panel
18cm x 23cm -
Sunday Life Drawing update
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... -
Collaboration with Jakob, Kotone, Jethro and Sanea
June 8, 2023Great 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... -
Collaboration with Amy Groves and Kasia Sambrook
May 27, 2023Great 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... -
Amy Groves and Kasia Sambrook improvisation 11
Oil on panel
15cm x 11.5cm -
Kotone Sugiyama and Jacob Hornsey with their double portrait
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Amy Groves and Kasia Sambrook Improvisation 14
Oil on panel
18cm x 11.5cm -
Titania and Oberon (Ballet Cymru 253)
Oil on panel
23cm x 11.5cm -
Charcoal sketching and Sunday Life Drawing
December 28, 2022An 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... -
Isolated Pulses (Ballet Cymru rehearsal 239)
Oil on panel
61cm x 18cm -
Puck study (Ballet Cymru rehearsal 249)
Oil on panel
18cm x 23cm -
Fields (Ballet Cymru rehearsal 246)
Oil on panel
30cm x 11.5cm -
Countermove (Ballet Cymru rehearsal 242)
Oil on panel
30cm x 15cm -
The Four Seasons (James Wilton Dance rehearsal 5)
Oil on panel
30cm x 11.5cm -
Giselle (Ballet Cymru rehearsal 237)
Oil on canvas
200cm x 120cm -
Romy Adair (Lockdown Dancers 64)
Oil on panel
23cm x 30cm -
Tips for young artists | Awgrymiadau i artistiaid ifanc
September 12, 2020Based 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...
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