The quiet beauty of alla prima still life painting

AT THE HEART OF MY OWN PRACTICE lies observation and my wish to capture atmosphere of the place, wherever that may be. To achieve this, I like to work en plein air observing the new scenes and alla pr

There is that brief moment, each time we approach a blank canvas or a fresh page in our sketchbook, when things go quiet and we feel a pause. The bustle of thought softens, the hand hovering over the

You will learn Painting winter light effectively Applying texture using tools Balancing variety with clarity The painting Morning Light at Marple Locks was born from one of those early winter mornings

Sharon Ingoldby takes furniture painting to a new level, transforming old and neglected pieces with charming folk art-inspired pattern and colour

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

For artist Nellie Shepherd, the landscape outside her painstakingly renovated farmhouse is just as important as the colourful scene inside it