Never heard of him? I hadn't either ...but found an amazing video of how he works on YouTube: ...and now I'm hooked! Loving all that...

An amazing architect and furniture designer, who designed this black lacquered screen in 1923! If you click on the above photo it will...

Why inspiring for me as an artist? I love the fact that his photographs are not cropped, what he saw through the view finder is exactly...

Fashion illustration at its very best ... I adore his work - amazing line, great texture, colour sense and a fabulous use of space - with...

We all know Andy Warhol don't we?! Why do I find his work inspiring? Not for the Tin of Baked Beans - although it was a stroke of Genius...

Addressing the balance here - another female artist as we are generally under represented in the world of art. Elaine and I had a very...

Mary Wondrausch - I've linked this image to a video of her on Vimeo Great lady, so very passionate about not only her own work but...

Great Sculptor ...yes, but it's her prints I covet! This cormorant is plain fabulous - love, love the texture in the wings, the perfect...

Love this! It's called 'Pelagos' and was made in 1946, Hepworth used Elm for this sculpture - that curve, the finish, the pale, pale...

Irises by Ogata Kōrin In my bookcase is a copy of the Royal Academy catalogue for The Great Japan Exhibition, held in 1981. I went with...

Following a train of thought here - my last blog was about Paula Rego and her dancing ostriches ...she has also drawn angels and Anita...

Paula Rego tends to paint in series - collections - often based on popular subjects such as fairy tales, dogs ... and ballerinas....

I noticed this gorgeous life drawing by Vanessa Garwood on Pinterest. I love to draw figures myself so seeing a really good life drawing...

Now I love a second hand book shop - you never know what you will find and sometimes it's a gem! I'll always end up in the book shop when...

“Frog” by Matsumoto Hoji from a picture album, “Meika Gafu”, 1814 My all time favourite Japanese print by Matsumoto Hoji. Those of you...

The artist I most wanted to draw like when I was about fifteen. I so wanted to be able to draw an angel like the one we see here in...

In my last blog in this series I mentioned that I'd happily stuff Sargent's 'Carnation, Lily,Lily, Rose' under my coat and steal it away...

Another of my first loves... his painting Carnation Lily, Lily, Rose. This painting in the words of Charles Richard Cammell - one of the...

The first painting I fell in love with was 'King Cophetua and the Beggar maid'... I was around six or maybe eight years old, when dad had...

Textile designer - a seminal moment in the history of textile design - Calyx furnishing fabric, 1951: What's not to admire?! It was free...