Colin Ruffell

Exactly a year ago I wrote a blog-post about the Spring Fair. This is where and when the professional art, design, furnishing, and gift...

Qigong, Meditation, and Bumpy Paper! Some art is really complicated and other art is really simple. Indeed some artists are really...

Watching paint dry. Last Saturday I gave a demonstration of my acrylic painting technique in the huge, new, Great Art, artists supply shop i

Five things about London. London is a big, important, interesting, popular, exciting, place. I was born and brought up here as well....

ANIMALS AS AN ART SUBJECT. Many artists have depicted animals in their art. Myself included. In my case I have painted our black cat...

Skylarks singing, dewdrops on cobwebs, and flowers. January the first 2017. I am getting dozens of emails, Facebook posts, Twitter, and...

Canvas, hardboard, paper or plank. A lot of non-artists don’t have much idea about why artists use such a variety of surfaces for their...

How to sell your art. This is the biggie. The big question that successful artists get asked all the time. And of course the answer is...

Many years later… These two photographs show my daughter and myself [Shyama Ruffell and Colin Ruffell] on a couple of occasions while...

Starve, strive, survive, then thrive. That is the basic formula for an artist to go from the starving artist phase to the thriving artist...