Dear beautiful creative community, how are you all holding up out there? I imagine you may, like me, feel worried and unsettled with all that is going on in the world right now. A time of great turbulence and upheaval everywhere. I find myself being pulled in all sorts of directions empathically and it’s hard Read More
For this week’s Life Book lesson I created a painting inspired by the inspiring Frida Kahlo. My lesson focuses on ‘transforming limiting beliefs into liberating beliefs’ and I find Frida such an amazing example of someone who defied societal expectations and -I assume- she also confronted her internal limiting beliefs looking at how she approached life Read More
Hello oh glorious creative buddies! :) Welcome to the new site and a new blog post (the first I’ve done on the new site!!). It’s been a huge amount of work to create this site (and we’re still dealing with teething issues, but! It’s here AND it’s time it’s time it’s tiiiiiiiiime to announce to Read More
Hey there fabulous friends! :) I was just checking up on my ‘favourite art supplies post’ from a while back and realised it’s dreadfully out of the date (read with dramatic voice!). So I felt called to do an updated ‘My Favourite Art Supplies’ post just for you, because I love you and you smell Read More
Ola from Spain dear friends. The world feels like it’s going up in flames while I calmly and peacefully listen to my children’s laughter (like bells ringing) as they splash around in a beautiful pool filled with fresh sparkly water. How can peaceful joy and abject devastating terror be present in the world at the Read More
I Wrote a Book You Guys! :D Hello most amazing friends! I wrote a book! I wrote a book!!! :D Can you believe it?! Let me tell you preabout how it happened! So, people have asked me for years if I would write a book, and I used to be reluctant as I’d seen many Read More
Ok you guys!! I’m totally ‘fairy-taled up’!! I’m currently eating, sleeping and breathing fairy tales, haha! :) Totally over excited teehee!! I dressed up as a fairy princess this weekend to do some filming for the promotional video for Ever After and now I’m ‘glittering up’ pretty much every day! :D Anyhoo, you may already Read More
Hi Guys! Welcome to a series we run on the blog called: Tea & Cake with Gracie :) My awesome friend and colleague Gracie Howle interviews inspiring artists and posts the interviews (including some free offers not published elsewhere before) here on the blog every 2 months or so. I love to create art and Read More
Abracadabra ziggidy zoo, ala kazam, bippity boppity BOO; iiiiiit’s BLOG HOP & Give Away Tiiiiime! :) Weeeee! :) Soooo, not long to go until Ever After 2017, my newest collaborative fairy-tale course will go on sale (17th May)! But before it does, we like to basically throw a mahoosive give-away arty blog hop party! :D Read More
Instagram round up of Flower Girls! :) (Follow me in on Instagram HERE). These flower girls keep turning up in my journal, I’m thinking of making them into a class, what do you think? There will be a heavy focus on working with Tombows and inks. :)
Hi Guys! Welcome to a series we run on the blog called: Tea & Cake with Gracie :) My awesome friend and colleague Gracie Howle interviews inspiring artists and posts the interviews (including some free offers not published elsewhere before) here on the blog every 2 months or so. I love to create art and Read More
Hi lovely readers! Gracie here from Willowing – hello! :) For our Artist Spotlight (a new feature we are running on the blog!) this month we are featuring Mahe Zehra Husain with a bit of an interview and she’s also giving away a copy of the BRAND NEW book ‘Around the World with 80 Artists’ which is Read More
