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

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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

We have always believed in the power of creativity, not only for the creator, but, just as importantly, have also witnessed first-hand the positive reactions in anyone viewing the results of someone’s creative efforts. Like us, you will no doubt have heard many and varied reactions – most common amongst them being “I cannot draw a straight line”, or “I haven’t got a creative bone in my body”. If either of those reactions was true, then none of us would be creating our artwor

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The Power of Sketching & Drawing – to capture a memory forever Whenever I go through my many sketchbooks, each containing sketches and drawings made over the years, I am immediately taken back to that time – such is the power of sketching and drawing. These are visual journals – words in pictures, but so much more than that – they also depict the emotions of the moment, or the characteristics of the event or scene. I can recall all this and so much more, because I had to cl