"It is in my very soul to create works of art, I have a passion for doing so, which has been my life’s work. In my early, formative years, works were placed in galleries - now my original Masterworks paintings are only available privately, directly from our studio – so it is with my latest collection of on-the-spot paintings at Music Sessions & Events – the subject of Blog Post #1, linked to this post." Browse through my Masterworks Originals Gallery and Limited-Edition Print

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

Browsing through the content of every video within each box-set is essential - otherwise many invaluable step-by-step demonstrations