A no-mess, 20 minute colour sketch in monochrome that brings the outside world in

Have a go at this atmospheric approach to creating a charcoal sketch, where an eraser is your new best friend!

For print lovers to drawing enthusiasts, artists to organisations

Here’s my go-to guide featuring 6 ways to work with me in 2026

What a year it’s been!

From Weardale to Wheelbirks, Shildon to Lowick & Northumberland to Newcastle; 2025 has been jam packed with creativity, community and countryside

We all want to stand out from the crowd…

But how?!

Artists often ask about my experience writing a successful DYCP application. People share their challenges and dreams. I hope some of those ingredients I used can help shape your recipe for success…

My DYCP year has come to an end, but it feels like just the beginning…

Thanks to capital funding from Creative UK!

Reflections on training with the Royal Drawing School in Colour, Composition and Topographies.

A new drawing resource.

PLUS, dates announced for a two day landscape drawing workshop at DRAW Studio!

Notans are studies of how light land dark elements of an image interact using only black and white.

Watch the short video below for how to draw a Notan

Save the date to see my abstract screenprint collection on display in Saltaire and look back at a recent exhibition featuring a new landscape drawing.

Join me for a 2 day workshop at DRAW Studio in Northumberland this Autumn!

Take a peek behind the scenes on three of my recent projects!

Join me in coastal Cambois, rural Otterburn and an island that’s not an island…

DYCP has given me the opportunity to think big…

Good News!

Prior to receiving a grant from Creative UK, my search for a studio in Northumberland had stalled.

In Conversation with Fran Arnold & Chloe Smith