Notes from the Studio
Journal
Short pieces on colour, working outdoors, and the life of the studio.
Latest / June 2026 / Colour / 6 min read
On Painting the Night Without Black
Why I reach for blues and violets when the sun goes down, and how a single candle can change a whole canvas.
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May 2026
Studio · 5 min
Studio · 5 min
The Yellow House, and Why Colour Needs CompanyREAD →
Notes on building a studio of the South, and the painters I hoped would come and fill it.
April 2026
Process · 4 min
Process · 4 min
Drawing the Same Field TwiceREAD →
What repetition teaches that a single sitting cannot. The wheat in May is a different animal to the wheat in July.
March 2026
Letters · 7 min
Letters · 7 min
Letters as a Way of SeeingREAD →
I write to my brother almost every day. The describing, I have found, is half of the looking.
February 2026
Process · 3 min
Process · 3 min
On Working FastREAD →
A canvas in a single morning. Why speed is not the same as haste, and where exactly the line falls.
January 2026
Colour · 4 min
Colour · 4 min
Sunflowers, AgainREAD →
Fourteen of them, and what it means to paint a thing simply because you love it.