Colin Ruffell

MY ART COLLEGE…PROS AND CONS Art college ‘pros and cons’ is a subject that I have been mulling over for the last 54 years. That is since...

Bousham Pop-up again at Gallery 40 Brighton BN1 4AQ 11am - 6pm daily last full day Saturday 3rd November When they started Bousham was a...

ARTISTS MANIFESTO One of the interesting things about being an artist is that some of us have produced and published a manifesto. I...

CAVE PAINTING Last year I wrote an article about the cave paintings in Lasceaux France. That blog post was mostly about the pigments...

Doodles are visual evidence of thought happenings. If you have an artist inside you maybe you doodle when you have pen or pencil and...

BONFIRE After 55 years of selling art for a living, I am having a bonfire. I sold my first painting 60 years ago. And I have managed to...

ACRYLIC versus WATER COLOUR or OIL PAINT... I wrote a blog piece about oils, acrylics and watercolour paints about a year ago. [LINK]....

AGENTS and MANAGERS for ARTISTS We artists are usually one-person businesses. We are loners. That is in the studio anyway. We don’t...

I am not an expert in framing my artwork, but I know a man who is. In fact I know quite a lot of expert picture framers. That is because...

Art fairs and Trade Fairs An ambitious artist might be interested in exhibiting at trade fairs or art fairs. These are usually annual...