A quick walk-through of my painting process. When you only see the finished piece, it’s hard to imagine how it got there. The opening stages are always surprisingly rough. Here’s a new work, from the feeling and pencil sketch to finished creation.

The annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is a celebration of living artists, with art by members of the public and famous artists hanging side-by-side. This year I was lucky enough to have a painting selected for inclusion in the show. What a great experience.

In this Focus on Female Artists blog, I meet Louise Connell, a watercolour artist and sculptor working mainly in recycled materials. Louise’s love of making is an integral part of her life. I asked her to tell me a bit about her work and what inspires her.

Creativity in art can be a challenging concept. But there are lots of things you can do away from the easel to get started. When I want to delve deeper into something, I like to find people to help me. So I asked Claire Ottewell, a medical intuitive and holistic healer, to give me some tips about unleashing my inner creative with essential oils.

Art is very personal. We each respond differently to different work. And because art is not just decorative, it’s personal in the way we choose to display it, to live with it and to buy it. This might make you question whether it’s a good idea to buy art online. Surely you need to see the work in person first to really get a sense of it?

When you make art, it’s important that other people see it, right? It’s something most artists will want to know at some point. How do you get your art in a gallery? How do you get your work in front of people who will love it? And how do you develop your artist practice so you feel confident you have something to say?

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer, and one of the most prominent contemporary female painters. She’s best known for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people.

Red Wellies is a painting with a story. It’s a story about how, when you love a painting enough, you’re meant to have it. Why it’s fun to buy original art online. And it’s a tale that could only have happened during the pandemic.

5 easy steps you need to consider when you commission an artist, so you get a painting you’re thrilled to hang in your home.

In this focus on female artists, current female abstract artist, Anita Davies, describes how she developed her practice and what drives her to create.

Creativity is a force that exists within every one of us. Even if you think you can't draw, might be tone deaf and never have an original idea, you're still a unique, creative being.

Art buying is a convoluted issue. For some people, it's simply a question of filling a blank wall, of making the home or workspace look a bit nicer. For others, it’s caught up with investment.

Jenni is in the third year of a fine art degree at University Centre, Somerset, and produces bold, exciting pieces that examine and defy stereotypes about women. I find her output enormously expressive and powerful.

Working as an intuitive artist, my paintings follow a process. While I’m never sure what they will contain in terms of either subject or symbolism, the image and its accompanying narrative emerges as I paint.

My painting ‘Autumn Hare’ is featured as the cover art on a new solo piano work by pianist and composer, Adam Johnson. Out on November 13, 2020, the piece is inspired by Czech composer Leoš Janáček.

In this guest artist ‘female focus’ blog, I ask Swedish artist Lilly Andréasson about Vedic art. Lilly’s work in this field is fascinating to me, as I have practiced Vedic meditation and yoga for many years. I’m also drawn to contemplative processes. I’ll let Lilly tell you the rest…

In this guest artist female artist focus blog, I hear from composer, cellist and media/sound artist, Semay Wu about her creative journey, and how she found a new voice when music fell silent during the 2020 pandemic.

I’m spending all day every Friday and Saturday in October at the Lost and Found Gallery. It’s an artist’s co-operative pop-up art gallery featuring work by Devon artists. The gallery is temporarily filling a space on the corner between Fore Street and North Street, where the old photography shop used to be, while the building awaits refurbishment.

I discovered Moira Beaty on eBay. I know that doesn’t sound very auspicious, but I like to spend my evenings scrolling through art online, and occasionally I’m moved to buy something to add to my small collection - which mainly consists of work by women artists.

Intuitive painting is a method of creating art that aims to explore and uncover aspects of the inner self. It is is suited to beginning artists, and to advanced painters. The goal is not to learn specific techniques, produce a body or work or develop a commercially viable style.