It’s all in the detail

I’VE COME FROM A VERY TECHNICAL BACKGROUND. When I started getting busier and time spent on artwork became much more precious, I began looking for ways to streamline the process without losing the pre

AS SOMEONE WHO SPECIALISES in coloured pencil pet portraits, I’m very familiar with layering fur and capturing texture, but this time I wanted to explore smoother surfaces, bolder shapes and underwate

This month, get creative with patterned fabrics and wallpapers, make everlasting paper flowers and invest in some quality bed linen or tableware

As a young girl, Polly Nicolaou was almost always to be found with her playthings under the kitchen table, such that her uncle would often sing, using her middle name: “Polly Mabel, under the kitchen

Any painter who has tackled the challenge of capturing wildlife will know it presents one obstacle more significant than any other: movement. Before the development of photography, this challenge was

ARCHITECTURE HAS ALWAYS been of great interest to me. There are many buildings that I have admired for years and their complicated shapes, angles and perspectives all lend themselves to the challenge