Latest News from Paul Taggart’s Studio – August 2026 Subscribed to our website? Subscribed to Paul Taggart's Elphen Chronicles on Patreon? Purchased our videos through Vimeo? To ensure we have your correct email address, please subscribe to our e-newsletter here on our website – click on the Paul Taggart's Elphen Chronicles, Paul Taggart Fine Art, or artworkshopwithpaul tabs and the subscription form will appear. “Greetings and the warmest of welcomes to our studio, here i

Over Thirty Years in the Making #1 – Childhood Memories brought to life It all started in 1995, or did it? Did it, in fact, start way back when I was a child playing in my Grandmother’s garden? Where I experienced a magical event that stayed with me throughout my life – as childhood memories often do – particularly powerful ones. A visual memory, waiting to be captured with my paints and brushes, as portrayed in my short story, ‘Starway Sapphires’. But … back to 1995, when a

Over Thirty Years in the Making #1 – Childhood Memories brought to life The first Elphen character came to life through my watercolour paints and brushes and as I worked, the story developed along with it. Lacewing, a Swarm Leader, was soon joined by Artimus Glin, an itinerant artist; then Starfire, the Elphen Seer and on it went, until a complete story was written and visualised through a collection of eighteen, full-plate watercolour paintings. The story ran across sevent

Over Thirty Years in the Making #1 – Childhood Memories brought to life All-in-all, 1997 turned out to be a momentous year, for no sooner had we invested our time and energy into The Elphen Chronicles, than the licence for our art magazine was taken up by a publisher and it was all go. Eileen as the magazine Editor, writing and commissioning articles, with my role being the Technical Editor and principal author/illustrator of the tutorials on traditional painting and drawing

Please play me by clicking on the image We bring you New Year Greetings from our studio in the Highlands of Scotland where, in common with many across the Northern Hemisphere, we look out over our snow-draped garden. Although we are some two weeks past mid-winter and the afternoons are getting lighter, we nevertheless start to feel a hot-chocolate or milky-coffee is in order once the light starts to fade around three-thirty in the afternoon – which is when I take a break from

This comes with warmest wishes from our studio in the Highlands of Scotland, at a magical time of the year; when the palette of vibrant Autumnal colours is at its most vivid. The past week or so has seen the temperatures here sink to below minus, from an unusually warm start to November, then swinging back up again with frosty mornings and clearer skies. Rainbows have made daily appearances across both land and sea, sometimes doubling-up. As for the low-lying light, as ever i

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The Full Picture Our worldwide audience will know that in September 2022 our previous website was subject to a cyber-attack - we took swift action and immediately deleted the site and all its content - a substantial loss to us, but necessary to protect our extensive portfolio of material featured on the site. 6 months of hard work later and our new site was released - which includes an extensive section dedicated to Paul Taggart's Elphen Chronicles. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LIN

Subscribed to our website ? Purchased our videos through Vimeo ? Subscribed to artworkshopwithpaul on Patreon ? Not received our October 2025 e-newsletter, featuring the Latest News from Paul Taggart’s Studio? To ensure we have your correct email address, please subscribe to our e-newsletter here on our website – click on the artworkshopwithpaul , Paul Taggart Fine Art or Elphen Chronicles tabs and the subscription form will appear. “Greetings and the warmest of welcomes

Greetings from our studio – where Autumn has set in and we are to be found working away, warmed by the radiating heat of our log-burning stove. One of our daily rituals is to discuss the day’s news over breakfast and oh-so-happily, earlier this week, the sole topic of conversation was a heart-warming story – one with which we agree wholeheartedly, one that we know will strike a chord with everyone who shares our passion for art. At long last, a properly conducted academic stu