Find the life in your still-life painting

WITH THE SUMMER LANDSCAPE PAINTING SEASON upon us, this is a great time to consider palette choices, new colour additions and expression in brushwork for our landscapes. Choosing a palette of oil colo

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

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

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

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

LORI MEHTA’S ART is all about stripping away the excess to reveal what really matters. After years in graphic design and raising her children, Lori returned to painting, finding inspiration in the lig