In conversation with Tim Benson
I remember that flyer distinctly: A cropped head shot of a man painted in big bold brush strokes and vivid colours pinned onto the scuffed wall of my art school. The copy read: 'Paint the portrait with Tim Benson' - a one off evening workshop. I took a picture of it and made a note of the date in my diary. This was back in 2014 and I had just started a once a week painting class. When I got home I showed the photo to my husband and said: "That’s how I want to paint." For me t
The artist's palette: Thomas Wharton
Nocturne by Thomas Wharton One of the things I ask all the artists I converse with and whose work I admire, is to talk to me about their colour palette. Specifically their skin tone palette. An artist's palette is like this unique bag of tricks that they create through trial and error and refine over time to bring their subjects to life. Legend has it that the artist Lucian Freud was so dependent on his use of a particular lead based white paint that when he heard of it becom
