A multi talented artist and designer, passionate about art in whatever form it took... "For me there is no gap between my painting and my...

Moira Shearer and Marius Goring in The Red Shoes 1948 I am my father's daughter - he loved movies and the movies he loved I grew up...

Illustrator of fabulous fun stuff, I adore her characters, the bright colours and the happy, happy vibe evident in all her work ...she...

Basket and lemons - lithograph printed by the Curwen studio - Mary Fedden Love, love, love her work! The line quality in her drawings,...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was known to some as an artist, others as a designer, and more as an architect. I love this wide and varied...

I first Saw Wyeth's work in an exhibition at the Royal Academy, there was a painting of a girl at the top of the staircase, so...

After the last blog you were probably expecting me to write about Yves Klein, but no! I met Miche at 'Art in clay' at Hatfield a wee...

I have a painted pebble paperweight on my desk, I bought it from a charity shop many years ago, and I thought it would inspire my friend...

Never heard of him? I hadn't either ...but found an amazing video of how he works on YouTube: ...and now I'm hooked! Loving all that...

An amazing architect and furniture designer, who designed this black lacquered screen in 1923! If you click on the above photo it will...

Why inspiring for me as an artist? I love the fact that his photographs are not cropped, what he saw through the view finder is exactly...

Fashion illustration at its very best ... I adore his work - amazing line, great texture, colour sense and a fabulous use of space - with...

We all know Andy Warhol don't we?! Why do I find his work inspiring? Not for the Tin of Baked Beans - although it was a stroke of Genius...

Addressing the balance here - another female artist as we are generally under represented in the world of art. Elaine and I had a very...

Mary Wondrausch - I've linked this image to a video of her on Vimeo Great lady, so very passionate about not only her own work but...

Great Sculptor ...yes, but it's her prints I covet! This cormorant is plain fabulous - love, love the texture in the wings, the perfect...

Love this! It's called 'Pelagos' and was made in 1946, Hepworth used Elm for this sculpture - that curve, the finish, the pale, pale...

Irises by Ogata Kōrin In my bookcase is a copy of the Royal Academy catalogue for The Great Japan Exhibition, held in 1981. I went with...

Following a train of thought here - my last blog was about Paula Rego and her dancing ostriches ...she has also drawn angels and Anita...

Paula Rego tends to paint in series - collections - often based on popular subjects such as fairy tales, dogs ... and ballerinas....