The City Workshop Edinburgh

I'm delighted to be taking part in the Spring Pop Up at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall alongside a wonderful group of talented resident artists and makers.

Everything on show is for sale - original artworks, prints, jewellery, cards......

Taking part are...




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It's on until Friday 15th March

Free entry

A wee Sunday afternoon sketch. A bit grey outside.... the perfect excuse to stay home and scribble for an hour.

Finding my happy place again ✨

After a lengthy period of time off, I am slowly emerging 🐌.
I'm fortunate to be showing a few paintings alongside this talented group. The show is on until 23rd - if you're in Edinburgh come check it out 🎨

It’s been a really busy week, juggling masters assignments with teaching all my fabulous students and packing up art packs for online classes starting in January. So busy that I haven’t posted to let you know that I have discounted all art classes starting in January! So, I’ve extended the discount for one extra day - if there is a class you’d like to join or if you would like to book a course as a gift for a loved one, you can still take advantage of the reduced price.

✨All details are on my website ✨

It has been such a pleasure to relax, paint and chat with these fab folks over the last few weeks and I'm really missing these Thursday night classes 🎨

The Art for Wellbeing painting classes are available online as well as face-2-face and we have been sharing the fab paintings in our online group 🖌️

Art for Wellbeing classes are all about enjoyment and relaxation- and through this you'll find your art skills improving and you'll become more confident in painting 🎨

Can't wait for more classes in the new year 💕

Wow 😯😯😯 the new Art for Wellbeing painting course sold out in a weekend!!

🎨I'm looking forward to welcoming students both in-person and online, to the course - I can't wait to see your fab paintings coming along and to spend some time relaxing and enjoying putting paint to canvas along with you.

🖌️If you'd still like to join the online course - just message me and I'll add you to the waitlist (if I can get more supplies for art packs - you're in)

✨Feeling super grateful guys - fun arty times ahead 🎨🎨✨✨

I love seeing young children draw just for the wonderful feeling they get from creating, with no care for what anyone thinks of their work. If I could achieve just one thing when teaching my classes it would be to help you find that freedom again 💕🎨

- my week has been transformed!

It's been so busy lately, balancing study and assignments with business admin and of course teaching all my lovely students.... and I've really struggled to find the time (and the headspace) for anything creative.

At the start of this week I was feeling overwhelmed by all the things on the 'to-do' list and on a bit of a downer.

If you've been to one of my drawing classes you'll likely have heard me say that just a couple of minutes of drawing each day can really help your well-being (as well as your drawing skills).

Time to practice what I preach - and I have found 10 minutes each day to put pencil, pen or brush to paper - no plan, no preconceptions .... and what a difference! Taking a moment to think about how I'm feeling and put that down on paper has made me feel so much better.

I've been sharing a wee sections on my stories and can't say thank you enough for the lovely comments.

Hope I can inspire you to have a go too.

I have moved!
This weekend I have been busy with a bit more painting (of the DIY kind- see my stories for details) and a bit more unpacking.

It's been a wonderful juggle of teaching online art classes and taking part in online lectures/study for my masters over the last few months but it's going to be great to see people in real life too!

opens to the public again tomorrow so you may find me taking my tea breaks in the awesome cafe!