Gillian Hancey Art

Last year I decided that I wanted to be involved in more collaborative art activities. Why? Well, I have had several years to explore and...

Somewhere in the midst of thinking about the many creative endeavours I wanted to explore further, I decided I wanted to try urban...

I discovered Zentangle at a Sketchbook Revival* workshop a couple of years ago and wanted to explore it further. The problem was that I...

As humans, we have a natural fixation on storytelling. We take in information more readily when it is presented to us in the form of a...

We have a tendency to look for something familiar in the unknown; patterns we recognise. For example, when presented with a piece of...

The money that is paid for artwork can be eye-watering (and often controversial). But what is it about art that makes it valuable? In his...

When I first started selling my work, I realised I needed to give it a title. To be honest, I didn’t really like this idea as it felt too...

Through education, we are generally conditioned into thinking that mistakes are bad and that we should avoid them. The less mistakes we...

Imagination is an essential part of what makes us human. It is part of the package that gave us the intelligence that set us apart from...

This is as far as my understanding has taken me...it seems too simplistic but it's intended only to get my head around the basic...

We are living in a time when we worry about things having too much longevity, yet we generally don't apply this way of thinking to works...

Almost every art class I’ve ever been in has involved the task of copying something (and ideally some techniques to help us with the...

What would you find more interesting, a journal that is just a descriptive account of what a person did everyday or one where you really...

Painters notoriously like to get some colour on a blank canvas as quickly as possible because starting with a clean, white space is very...

Let’s talk about circus performers. There’s no doubt about it; they provide excellent entertainment for all ages and we don’t sit there...