Japanese Body Painting Artist

The prizewinners in the 2015 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition were announced earlier today. Akash Bhatt RWS RBA has won the £10,000 First Prize for his latest painting of his mother - called Blue Room. Winner of the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2015 £10,000 First Place Blue Room by Akash Bhatt Over the years the artist has drawn and painted both his parents and developed a suite

I went to see the Annual Exhibition by the Hesketh Hubbard Art Society on Thursday. The Society is London's largest life drawing society The Portrait (£175) by John Harper Sutton Charcoal The exhibition is now finished.  This post highlights: my thoughts on the exhibition - and a suggestion for the future the prizewinners  work by artists I liked the artist who had the most visitors - due

Many artists living in London who have ever travelled west will have marvelled at the Artists Studio from the Arts and Crafts era - with the wonderful large north facing windows - on the A4 just before the start of the Hammersmith Flyover. They're called St. Paul's Studios. I've always wanted to know more about them and the sale of one of them means this post includes information about: one

I don't often write about the exhibitions of individual artists - however Rosa Sepple very much deserves to be highlighted on the pages of this blog. Rosa can currently be found in the Mall Galleries with her one woman exhibition "Out of the Blue" - in association with her gallery (Adrian Hill Fine Art, Holt, Norfolk). She's an elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (

It's been a while since I mentioned the topic of planning for our retirement as artists. I know a lot of people aren't thinking about retiring as artists - but there does come a time for some artists when eyesight begins to fail and arthritis sets in! Today I've published a new page about Retirement and Pensions for Artists on my Art Business Info for Artists website. It includes all the

While I was out sketching in Cambridge on Sunday, somebody took a look at a page on Making A Mark and notched up the 8,000,000th page view - according to Blogger! Magdalen Bridge and Scudamores, Cambridgepen and sepia ink and coloured pencils I got a non-stop commentary from the Punter Guides of the history of Magdalene College as they went past below! Isn't it absolutely amazing that one

There are a very few art blogs which I have followed consistently in the last 10 years. One of them is Charley Parker's fantastic 'Lines and Colors'. It's a really class act! The header for the Lines and Colors art blog - note the quotes! There are very few people on the Internet who write with enthusiasm and real knowledge about an enormous variety of artists and illustrators past and

On 19th September, a major exhibition of work by the leading Chinese contemporary artist Ai Wei Wei opens at the Royal Academy of Art. The exhibition is the first major institutional survey of his artistic output It's been curated in collboration with Ai Wei Wei from his studio in Beijing. It includes  significant works from 1993 - when Ai Weiwei returned to China - after more than a decade

I've noticed on every London Urban Sketchers sketchcrawl that I've organised that we always seem to get people coming along who are temporarily visiting London. Plus we also have a large group of people from around the UK (e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Northampton, Southampton) who regularly come to the sketchcrawls in London It struck me that maybe other Urban Sketchers groups in the UK and other

I've developed a new page on my Art Business Info for Artists website. It's part of a brand new section I'm developing about selling art. Two sub-sections I've started to develop relate to: selling via art dealers, art galleries and art agents selling art online via ecommerce the starting page for the 'how to sell art' section of my website Selling Art This page provides a summary of

The 23rd Annual International Exhibition of the Coloured Pencil Society of America is currently on display at Oglethorpe University Museum in Atlanta, Georgia - until 23rd August 2015. Every year this exhibition comprises artwork drawn using 100% colored pencil and is based in a gallery in a different part of the USA. I liked the way CPSA announced their prizewinners on the CPSA facebook page -

This week I visited the London's Secret Garden exhibition which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Florilegium Society at the Chelsea Physic Garden. a corner of the exhibition - with the exhibition banner This is a very long post and comprises: a review of the exhibition - highlighting work by specific artists an account of how the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society works - and

Four years ago I certainly did! I spent an absolutely wonderful time drawing and painting Provence with friends while staying in the home of Julian Merrow-Smith (of Postcard from Provence fame)and his wife Ruth Phillips at the foot of Mont Ventoux.  Lots of really good memories. Paintings on boards from last year's Autumn Course Since that time Julian has started offering painting workshops -

Below you can find the Key Dates for the Call for Entries for Art Societies belonging to the Federation of British Artists - who will be holding their Annual Open Exhibitions in 2016 at the Mall Galleries Art Society Submit Online - DEADLINE Receiving Day in 2016 Exhibition Dates in 2016 Pastel Society 6 November 2015 9 January 23 February - 5 March Royal Society of British

It's always really interesting to see the different approaches - in terms of style and media- used by the botanical artists of another country.  The "Flowering Bulbs and Tubers" exhibition by the Dutch Society of Botanical Artists can be seen in Galleries 2, 3 and 4 at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery in Kew Gardens. It provides an excellent opportunity to view how the Dutch do it - and they do it