Colin Ruffell

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...

FAT OVER LEAN... Fat over lean is a phrase that comes from traditional artist’s studios. It refers to the sequence that should apply when...

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

Art as investment by Colin Ruffell excerpt from 'Art Business Today' magazine June 2010 I had a phone call yesterday from a woman who...

ARTISTIC LICENCE. A skill or a creative act? Artistic License (also known as Poetic License or Dramatic License). Examples would be in a...

By request here is something about life as a young struggling artist in the swinging sixties. The sixties are known for sex, drugs, and...

The idea of likening abstract art to frozen music came about because some otherwise very worthy people just don't get the idea of...

2016 marks my first 50 years as a pro. A full-time professional artist that is, or FTPA. I don’t really expect to get another fifty years...

In the past year or so some things have been good, and other things have been less good. Mostly good I am glad to say. But one of the...