Making pigments, tracing shadows, discovering texture and an unexpected sound effect: Tower Gallery artist residency week 3

Goodness knows what my neighbour thought I was doing, in the garden, wearing a mask, carrying three small bottles of powder, a jar of liquid and an egg… But I had an experiment to do, making brick and stone watercolours and egg tempera to try out in the Tower Gallery … Read More

Binding sketchbooks, chasing shadows and painting with clay: Tower Gallery artist residency week 2

Big drawings. How to prepare? The tiny sketchbooks I carry, which I bind from offcuts and scrap are – well – tiny. So, my Tower Gallery residency project being about the building, bringing my love of appropriate materials from my design life I’ve made one big sketchbook from lining paper, … Read More

Two views

I’m thrilled to be selected for my first ever artist residency, with Tower Gallery, at the extraordinary Memorial Community Church in East London, in a studio built as its projection room. It has views into the church and across to the Royal Docks. Over the Summer I’ll be making some … Read More