I’m delighted – at the last minute – to be taking part in this year’s Christmas Fair at St Michael’s church in Southfields. I will have a wide selection of etchings and lino prints, plus lots of cards. It starts at 11.00 and goes on until 7pm. There are lots of activities for small ...
WAOH is happening again. Soon. What’s Wandsworth Artists Open House all about? To anyone unfamiliar with the format, over the course of two weekends in October, artists of all kinds – amateurs, professionals, fine artists, crafters, ceramicists, painters, print-makers, jewellery makers – open their houses or studios to anyone who wants to come in and ...
I’m very pleased to have found a whole new set of arty, local friends in the group that’s informally known as the Southfields Artists. We’re getting together this time to exhibit at a pop-up art fair at the Gardens Tennis Club in Southfields on March 31st from 12-6pm. Following on from the success of the ...
Wandsworth Artists Open House 2018 I’d love to be a full-time artist. But I’m not. I’m lucky, though, because what I do for a living is something I also love. I’m a digital marketing professional and – with my business partner, Tamara – we run a partnership called ALTA Digital. We specialise in things like ...
The Italians called it mud! The word “gouache” derives from the Italian word for mud – guazzo. In the Sixteenth Century, this described a process of binding oil paint with a binding agent to create a matt finish. Today, gouache should be considered a part of the watercolour family. The pigments are the same, they’re ...
A very old print-making technique Etching goes right back to the Middle Ages and is one of the first forms of sophisticated print-making. Similar to engraving, etching also started out as a way of decorating metal – weapons and shields mostly. It took a fellow called Daniel Hopfer, a craftsman based in the south German ...