• How To Draw Tree Foliage With Coloured Pencils

    How To Draw Tree Foliage With Coloured Pencils

    My latest drawing with Derwent Lightfast Coloured Pencils is of rich green poplar trees in Castle Park. In this post you can find out about the drawing techniques I used to create the leaves, grass, sky, shadow etc.

  • What does the Moon really look like?

    What does the Moon really look like?

    I was observing the moon in 3 different ways: 1. without my glasses, 2. wearing my contacts and 3. with my glasses on. Every experience was different, the moon looked different every time. Which of these 3 images is the true representation of the moon? What does the moon really look like?

  • Experience Synaesthesia – Colours And Shapes Of Music

    Experience Synaesthesia – Colours And Shapes Of Music

    I have a rare neurological condition – synaesthesia… No, it is not a disability, it is a remarkable sensation that I consider a gift. In this post, I would like to share with you some aspects of this experience and show you how I sense and see the energy of reverberating sounds of drums. For a…

  • Clitheroe – oil painting of the town

    Clitheroe – oil painting of the town

    This is my new picture which I am currently working on. I managed to record its beginnings. In this short video see how my town is emerging from nothingness of the canvas. Through lines and shapes, strokes of a brush, splashes of ink; I am forming, creating and bringing to life a town, my town, formed from…

  • Courtyard

    Courtyard

    December 2014 – January 2015Inspiration: Clitheroe, the Courtyard I would like to share with you my latest work and show you stages of its making. In the town of Clitheroe, there exists a concealed courtyard accessible through an inconspicuous doorway off the main street. Upon wandering through it once, I was astounded by the unexpected beauty…