As an artist I've always enjoyed a challenge and felt good about the fact I can work in lots of different mediums to create my work so when De Montfort University asked me to create a digital artwork I jumped at the chance.

Eight months ago I sat down and had a conversa...

Our art clubs are FREE to anyone who'd like to attend and we offer safe spaces for kids to be creative, make friends and learn. Our tutors are all highly skilled artists with a passion to help and educate. We currently have 4 clubs across Leicester which run on Saturda...

As an artist you need a space to work, a space which is yours, a place where all of your stuff, canvases, paints and whatever else you use to create your art, can be stored and kept close at hand. We all work in different ways and all have different spaces which are pe...

In the second year of my degree at De Montfort University I wandered out of a class and sat on a bench next to a new guy who'd joined the course after leaving another Uni. We got chatting, discovered we knew a few of the same people, liked the same tunes, and from that...

I've donated a few artworks in the past to different charity art auctions and this week I gave this piece (on the left) to the De Montfort university fine art auction which is run every year to raise funds for the printing and design of the degree show catalogue. I man...

Kids never fail to amaze me. I'm very lucky to work with them through my DMU Local role at De Montfort Uni, through the work I do at Saturday art clubs and I also have 4 kids of my own, so I pretty much know what I'm talking about when it comes to junior artists, creat...

I'd have to agree with Albert Einstein when he said:   

He knew what he was talking about.

Last week I had the standard dad-daughter conversation at the dinner table and soon realised my kids are starving:

"School all OK?"

'Yes, great"

"Learning much?"

"Loads"

"How's you...

'Daily Grind' refers to a couple of things: The daily grind of navigating the city to get to your work place and a trick done by skateboarders where the trucks grind along the coping of a ramp, the concrete of a curb or the metal of a handrail.

I've skated my whole life...

Starting the Art club at StudionAme was something I'd wanted to do for a long time but I never guessed what a success it would become. We're into our 3rd month and the group just keeps growing each week with new kids visiting and making friends with the kids that come...

Yesterday I taught an art class in the city with a group of retired people learning all about charcoal and how great it is as a medium. They enjoyed the chance to use something new and some had never used charcoal before, but they'll definitely use it again.

I've always...