Author: Duffy Tomei

I joined in with my friend Lesley Lord’s workshop.  She was ‘painting a bluebell wood’ with her class but I’d done a few of those…

When do you know when an art work is finished? ‘… I often find that the more I look at something I’ve drawn or painted,…

Inspired by friends, fellow local artists, experimenting with monotonal paintings, I followed suit.  Hubby had proudly presented to me with a little bunch of daffs…

‘Just make some marks’ said Nial Adams at the workshop I was attending, billed as ‘How to Paint with Oils like the Old Masters’.  I’d…

At the end of a great workshop with Niall Adams, I had a very impressive sky on one half of the canvas but little else. …

This delightful seascape emerged from a pastel workshop with Geoff Thorpe at which I was more an observer than participant.  I was working at the…

‘Say what you see!’  It seemed obvious when thinking of a title for this newcomer to my catalogue of works; the painting is simply two…

An upcoming exhibition inspired me to focus on producing new additions to my ‘Colour in Motion’ collection; replacements for paintings that had danced their way…

As we were driving home one afternoon, having just passed through Thorpe le Soken on our way back to Walton on the Naze, I glanced…