THE PAGES SERIES I started painting on book pages at the end of last year. I’d used up all my canvases and couldn’t justify buying more. I was already using old volumes as my sketchbooks, so I tested out the paper of an old 1950s annual I had sitting on the shelf. ...
LIFT THEM UP Lift them up. Not because of what they might do for you. But because their successes are your successes too. I wrote this in my Instagram stories last week because I had been thinking a lot about how proud I am of so many women, both friends, but also...
REASONS I THOUGHT I WASN’T AN ARTIST For most of my life I believed I could never be an artist. I thought real, proper artists met certain criteria; assumptions and stereotypes I picked up as a kid. And I didn’t fit the bill. A few years ago, when I...
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ART Before I started thinking seriously about making art my main occupation, I hadn’t considered the meaning of my artwork beyond what it was: colours, brushstrokes, paint on paper, escape. Yes, it felt deeply personal to me; that was my time, my...
MY KIDS FORCED ME TO PAINT I’m a mother and I am an artist. I am a lot of other things too; but Mummy and Artist are the two identities that shout the loudest. And I wouldn’t be an artist now if I hadn’t been a mum first. My kids forced me to paint. Of course, this...
CRANE AND PINK MOON There is a conflict as an artist between wanting to hold on to work that you love and making it available to sell in order to make a living. The painting above is one of my absolute favourites. Crane and Pink Moon is such a simple piece but it...
SAM HAINES : ARTIST/MOTHER I have said often that my first kid, now 4, taught me how to be a mum. And my second, now almost 3, taught me to be an artist. And I am so grateful for both! I intend this blog to be a little of the two because I find it impossible to...
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