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A pencil sketch shows a rock climber with ropes and gear from behind, placed on a wooden desk surrounded by art supplies.

The First Line Competition

What a wonderful breath of fresh air sketching can truly be. Take a look at all the imaginative entries. Thank you to everyone that responded with with such enthusiasm to our invitation to pick up a pen and submit their sketches to our first First Line sketch competition. Thank you... Read more

An old sketchbook page with pencil drawings of figures, faces, and a person riding a horse.

William Blake

William Blake used his late brother Robert's note book and added to it his own sketches and musings. Blake's notebook is now a highly prized Brititsh treasure that was once also in the hands of Gabriel Rossetti who saw Blake as a significant figure understood the notebook's true worth. I was fortunate enough to... Read more

Open notebook with handwritten notes and sketches, including a map and a landscape drawing on the right page.

Competition Background

Roland went to Worthing Art College and it was the place he credited with giving him an experimental philosophy for life, he saw the way he lived his life as that of an artist and kept the sketch books he created around his time in Art School with him throughout his life. In... Read more

A man in a gray hoodie works on a small electronic device at a cluttered kitchen table filled with tools, dishes, and household items.

A New Bowl

I don’t know what to do too much of the time or even what to post. Celebrating the England win last night I noticed the Italian girls, they were devastated, their eye’s full of tears while their hands clapped well done. It’s almost a year now since Roland Manuel’s body lost its battle... Read more