Painting boats and harbour scenes

As far as boats are concerned, the choice of subject matter available is so vast. Here I will mainly deal with boats towards the smaller end of the spectrum; typically, small fishing boats and other c

MATERIALS ● Surface A proprietary, canvas covered board treated with a coat of texture paste. I then applied a loose, varied, coloured acrylic ground using various combinations of cadmium red, cadmium

It’s hard to define what it is about a subject that makes you chose it as a starting point. This painting of a cat is an interesting example. Animals are not my usual subject matter but as soon as I s

BEFORE SARAH JANE BROWN BECAME A PAINTER, she learned to read the sea. Not in the romanticised, windswept sense; but practically, viscerally, day after day. With over two decades working on the water

Acclaimed landscape artist Sarah Adams shares how the tides, geology and ever-shifting light of the Cornish coast shape her immersive oil paintings

I’VE BEEN QUITE CAPTIVATED BY URBAN LANDSCAPES LATELY. After completing a small series of paintings around Camden Lock in June – which I dubbed The Great Graffiti Search in my filmed walkthrough episo