Mingling with celebs at Fashion Awards Night

TV presenter and art collector Anne Davies invited me to the East Midlands Fashion Awards 2018.  Anne and co-host fashion expert Patrick Grant joined us to watch paralympian Richard Whitehead and BBC’s Lucy Martin take to the catwalk amongst the professional models. I bumped into a few famous faces!

An atmospheric backdrop of theatrical lighting took place in the magnificent setting of St.Mary’s Church, Nottingham, an excellent venue to convey the amazing talent of our Universities.  Money raised was donated to Rainbows Hospice.

Factum Arte & the facsimile in art

Program presenter Roger Law

A friend told me about a relatively new radio programme on BBC called, WOW! How did they do that?
Presented by the colourful Spitting Image founder, Roger Law, the show features the people behind some of Britain's most outrageous and successful designs, inventions and events.
I'm now committed to every episode, convinced by the recent inclusion of Madrid-based Factum Arte, whose work in facsimiles, from the paintings of Caravaggio to Tutankhamun's tomb, jumped out of the radio in full- blown technicolor and whose website has to be one of the most fascinating and creatively interesting around. To be astonished see www.factum-arte.com

Two of the paintings by Caravaggio facsimiled by Factum Arte: 
www.factum-arte.com

At BBC Radio Leicester!

On air with Tony Wadsworth, BBC Radio Leicester.

My interview with Tony Wadsworth this morning on BBC Radio Leicester went surprisingly well when you consider how nervous I'd been all week! He was so friendly and encouraging that once we got chatting I relaxed and time flew. Definitely not my favourite thing, and I'd much rather be painting, but now I've done a couple of radio interviews I feel I'm growing more confident about talking about my work.