#57: Sketching in Oil Pastel
Recently I’ve started experimenting with oil pastels as a sketching medium. They’ve allowed me to explore colour, gesture, and ideas much more quickly than my usual painting process. In this post I reflect on how this simple shift in materials is opening up new ways of thinking in the studio.
#56: Three Portraits, One Submission
After weeks in the studio refining and reworking three very different portraits, I’ve finally submitted my entry for Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year. Each piece represents a different aspect of my practice right now — from the expressive colour of What I was and what I’ve become, to the vertigo-inspired …and the world keeps on spinning, and a monochrome portrait of Olivia Colman that returns to the foundations of my work.