COLIN RUFFELL ARTIST [INTERVIEW]
INTERVIEW WITH COLIN RUFFELL ARTIST “I have been a full-time professional artist for over 50 years. I know … I am amazed as well. But it...
ARTISTS OPEN HOUSE EXHIBITION 2017
ARTISTS OPEN HOUSE EXHIBITION 2017 13 Addison Road, Hove, Sussex, UK. 8th May 2017. The first weekend is over! This year it was busier...
Spring Fair Most Popular Artists
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...
Watching paint dry.
Watching paint dry. Last Saturday I gave a demonstration of my acrylic painting technique in the huge, new, Great Art, artists supply shop i
Animals in Art.
ANIMALS AS AN ART SUBJECT. Many artists have depicted animals in their art. Myself included. In my case I have painted our black cat...
Many years later...
Many years later… These two photographs show my daughter and myself [Shyama Ruffell and Colin Ruffell] on a couple of occasions while...
HOW TO THRIVE AS AN ARTIST
Starve, strive, survive, then thrive. That is the basic formula for an artist to go from the starving artist phase to the thriving artist...
ART IS A FAMILY THING
Art is a family thing. This post was written to coincide with an up-coming publication of a feature article in Art and Framing Today...
LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, OR SQUARE
LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, or SQUARE are the usual choices of orientation when you start to paint a picture. ‘AMALFI’ by Colin Ruffell ...
Australia and Ten Pound Poms.
AUSTRALIA Ten Pound Poms. My Mum, my step-dad, my two brothers and my sister went to Australia over half a century ago for just ten UK...