My beautiful friend, Claire Maclean aka ClaraBaza, has died. She was an artist, musician and she made gourds into art objects. She was a light in my and so many others lives, she was dependable and fun. I miss her. It wasn't sudden, she had a cerebral haemorrhage a few days after the opening night [...]
Another nice use of one of my flamenco dancers. This time advertising a Spanish fiesta with prizes for the best float. The designer Eduardo Cruz knows my work and kindly asked permission to use on of my images. I enjoy seeing my art go out there in the world and help peoples projects. One of [...]
"Acompalia will be celebrating its 3rd Charity Ball on September, 22nd and who best to ask for original art than Acompalia Artistica project leader and talented artist Emma Plunkett. We are honoured to have Emma by our side and are delighted by her artwork Rejoicing in Tulle. She is generously donating the original A3 framed [...]
I was asked by the town hall to create the front page for the local fiesta brochure. My husband, Honza, and I collaborated on the project, with the idea to reflect the ancient Moorish and Christian battle reenactment that takes place during the fiesta. We decided upon using a repeat moorish vector design for the [...]
A rather interesting tourist attraction I paid a visit to Sedlec Ossuary, to the cemetery of the catholic Church of All Saints in Kutná Hora, Bohemia. On entering the crypt, I experienced the magnitude of being in such close proximity to the 40,000 human remains that have been artistically laid to rest there. The human [...]
I was invited by the faculty of art at the University of Granada, to come and lecture to students studying to be art teachers. I was asked to speak about my work and the importance of art in life, something I feel very passionate about. My job was to inspire the students, so that they [...]
I was given some background information about the 60 students I was to give my talk to at the University of Granada, that they only value Baroque painting as a form of art and that they thought that all artists were financially poor and that being an artist is not a good life choice. So my job [...]
During the Málaga art day I spent the day sculpting from my heart. I didn't know what I was going to make before hand and felt a bit anxious, as I have only done one previous public display of making art before. Usually I am shut away in my art studio alone, so working in [...]
I have been asked twice this week about how I ended up in Spain, so I thought I would share my story with you too. It was May 2002 and I just wanted to double check that London was actually the best place in the universe. So I thought I would dip my toes outside [...]
I spent the day making a belly cast of my friend's pregnant bump! I brushed up on my casting skills by watching a bunch of video tutorials before starting and I leaned back on my past experiences of casting. It was all quite exciting, remembering how important the release agent is. We decided on just [...]
Last week I attended a morning of life drawing at the Airetiko Ariel Art Retreat in the Las Alpujarras mountains, southern Spain. It was an exhilarating and creative experience because I had no time to think and I didn't know what was going to happen next. Would the super fit models hold their poses long [...]
The University of Alcalá, Madrid has chosen my watercolours to illustrate this years flamenco program. So I suppose, I can take it as an endorsement from the flamenco establishment!
