15 September 2018

A week of Bridport & West Dorset Open Studios has now gone by in which Sally and I have welcomed lots of lovely visitors to Studio in the Attic... some of them even partaking of a cuppa and our trademark ginger biscuits. It's been heartening to see how many make the effort even though there aren't so many artists opening on the estate since July's fire (and even though we're still in our top floor studio, meaning two flights of stairs.)

It's especially nice to welcome back familiar faces – familiar in that I've 'done' them already – one such being one of my all-time favourite subjects (and, indeed, favourite people), Ant, as seen here with... himself!

Very, very nice, too, to welcome new faces who'll become new subjects soon – thank you for commissioning me.

There's still the weekend to go, so if you haven't tackled our stairs yet, please do head along to St Michael's Estate and find us – venue 40 in the BOS guidebook – if possible. There's ginger biscuits waiting!