studio notes
Welcome to Studio Notes, where I share artist interviews, what's happening behind the scenes in both my design and art journey, and honest thoughts on building a home for your art online.
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Becky Hodgkin
Becky is a South Wales-based artist and designer who only started painting seriously a year ago, fitting it into early mornings around a full-time career and two young children. In this interview, she talks about unlearning perfectionism, turning her conservatory into a makeshift studio, and her new project collecting 100 memories of summer from people to shape her first body of work.
Building your visual identity as an artist
Your art is the heart of your visual identity, but it's not the whole story. Here's what else goes into building a cohesive, polished visual brand as an artist.
Cath Crowther
This month's Artist Spotlight shines on Cath Crowther, a West Yorkshire painter whose bold, colourful abstracts carry the emotion of every chapter she's lived through. From leaving a co-owned business behind to painting her way through starting over, Cath shares her process, her studio, and the honest advice she'd give any artist ready to share their work with the world.
A New Beginning
A new season for Kindred Calling, and for me. After a 20-year pause, I picked up painting again, and it changed everything: how I create, how I show up, and why I started building tools to help other artists do the same.
Free toolkita little less admin chaos,
a little more calm
Five simple Google Sheets trackers for inventory, sales, commissions, expenses, and open calls. Built from the exact system I use in my own practice. No spreadsheet expertise required.