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Workshops and exhibitions
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EXHIBITION​
St Luke’s Church Hall
Erleigh Road
Reading
RG1 5LR
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31st October 2025 - 2nd November 2025
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Each Autumn, the Reading Guild of Artists holds its exhibition and sale of ‘small works’ and this year the exhibition will be held at St Luke’s Church Hall on Erleigh Road in Reading. I will be taking part.
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RGA artists have worked on a small scale to create intimate and varied artworks that are engaging and affordable. This is a great opportunity for art lovers to browse the artworks and maybe buy a unique gift for Christmas, or one for their own home which will fit into that small empty gap.
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The exhibition is open for three days, on Friday 31st October from 2 – 5 pm, Saturday 1st November from 10 am – 6 pm and Sunday 2nd November from 12 noon – 4 pm.
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I look forward to seeing you there!
OPEN STUDIO EVENT
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My Berkshire studio will be open to visit on the weekend of 15th and 16th November 2025 as part of the Acorn Open Studios. This is an opportunity to visit artists in their working studios, to see behind the scenes and find out all their secrets.
I will use it as an opportunity to have a bit of a clear out too, so as well as cards and prints, there will be lots of paintings available at a reduced price!
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More details can be found here.
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Workshop: Take 3 colours!
Level: Intermediate (some experience with oils is useful)
Creating a still life with limited palette in water-mixable oils
April 2026 (2 hours)
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Participants will be using flat brushes, a smooth board, water-mixable oils and only three colours to explore the potential of a limited palette.
This approach not only helps you improve your painting by forcing you to think about colour and how you mix it, it also creates a harmony in your work with paintings feeling balanced and harmonious, with all the colours naturally relating to one another.
Hopefully you will be inspired by your results to try this limited palette approach in your own work.
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You will be working from life. Your subject will be an apple (interesting subject when cut in half) or other piece of fruit or vegetable that inspires you. Your painting will fill the smooth gesso board provided.
Type of medium used: Water mixable oils (traditional oils are not allowed in the venue).
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Materials provided: 8″ x 8″ gesso board and water-mixable oils
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What to bring: A red skinned apple or other fruit or vegetable. A few flat synthetic brushes (eg 0, 2, 4), not bristle brushes. A palette knife. A paper palette and a box to take your work home in. A roll of paper towel. A jar for water.
Venue: Woodley, Berkshire
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​​​(Booking opens November 2025 and a link will be posted here)
Looking back....
In 2021 I was lucky enough to be selected to take part in one of my favourite TV shows, Sky Landscape Artist of the Year. It was a last minute application - I've always thought it would be fun if you were chosen to be one of the 'wild card' artists, who look as though they are having such a good time (even though it does always seem to be raining).
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It was quite an experience and although I had a bad case of imposter syndrome, I really enjoyed the whole process; the production team were so friendly and bent over backwards to make the contestants' experience as positive as they could.
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It was amazing to make it through to the final.
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At the semi-finals in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - it poured with rain!
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