Every now and then I manage to join in with the SIA Style Challenge (Style Imitating Art), and it always ends up being such a fun little creative exercise. If you’ve never heard of it, SIA is a bi-weekly style challenge where one piece of artwork is chosen and participants…
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So… I’ve accidentally fallen headfirst into a brand new obsession. Dollmaking. Actual, sewn-with-my-own-hands, little cloth humans (and mermaids). And honestly? I did not see this one coming. It all started the last time my bestie Sarah came over for one of our sewing weekends. You know the kind – lots…
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Welcome to the second instalment in my Year of Enchanted Paintings series! Last month, we explored the mesmerising magic of The Beguiling of Merlin — all mystery, temptation, and tangled spells — and this time, we’re stepping onto the stage with something every bit as captivating: John Singer Sargent’s Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889). There’s…
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Welcome to the very first post in my new series: Art Witch – A Year of Enchanted Paintings. Each month I’ll be exploring an artwork that feels especially magical, mysterious, or just plain otherworldly, and this month we’re stepping straight into an enchanted forest with The Beguiling of Merlin by…
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