I am really delighted to have been asked to do a demonstration at Byard Art as part of their Winter Exhibition. Really looking forward to this event where I shall be painting live and anyone who wants to can 'have a go' at using gold leaf on a small canvas to take home!

I shall be in the gallery from 5 to 7.30pm on Thursday 7th December.

Hope to see you there. Advert above in the free mag, VENUE, page 10.

Contact information +44 (0) 1223 464646 info@byardart.co.uk

Byard Art, 14 King’s Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SJ

It is a long time since I have taken part in an Arts & Craft Fair but I am really looking forward to joining other artists and crafters at the beautiful Pitt Building (Cambridge University Press) opposite Fitzbillies on Trumpington Street.

Showing here are some of the greeting cards including those especially for Christmas. I shall also have lots of prints, both mounted and framed plus a few small paintings. I love meeting art lovers and I have no doubt there will be (quiet) Christmas music and a brilliant atmosphere

I look forward to seeing you there.

In the summer, artist Naomi Tomkys sketched me sketching in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Naomi had been invited to exhibit at the Granary in Stapleford and had just started her series of painting people looking at paintings in one of the galleries. I was delighted to have been asked. Naomi is a fantastic painter who loves painting people and to be honest, I was really chuffed to be asked.

I hadn't seen the painting until I visited the exhibition and I was absolutely delighted to see it, Naomi really captured me sketching this beautiful painting perched on my camping stool, she had even brought along one of her colourful bags as an 'extra'. If you get a chance to see her work, please get in touch with her. The exhibition at the Granary has now finished but I am sure there will be other chances to see her work soon.