The RBSA’s tranquil exhibition spaces are given over to workshops on a regular basis, and there’s a completely different feel to the Gallery when people are learning and having fun… Art workshops don’t

The RA Summer show deadline is fast approaching and I have paid my submission fee of £35, I now have to decide what to enter. I have stopped limiting myself to something that will fit on the train and

Today is the BP Portrait deadline and I'm afraid I didn't finish anything I thought was good enough to get in, I will continue working on the ones I did start as they will be good for the RBSA Portrait

Art classes have been shown to be good for your wellbeing, and what’s more, they’re fun! Here’s our Top Ten reasons to take an art class, with a look at our Winter Workshop Programme. You can try something

Across all industries, an agreed axiom is that sending any type of correspondence or making any form of contact that hasn’t been researched properly is prone to failure and dissatisfaction. A higher rate

This week you can still see my work at the RBSA Members exhibition in Birmingham, In The Riverside Gallery in Richmond and it's the last week of the Beauty Within exhibition at the Light House. On Friday

In my defence I am not a landscape artist, I made one landscape as part of a project, I entered with it because I did think it was quite good and it got me on the show. If It hadn’t been a print I don’t

This is an interesting bit of writing by Mathew Cowlings, I don't agree with all he says but I think he brings up some interesting points. WhAT DO YOU think? I’m not against teaching things in art school.

The RBSA Members is a short walk through Pigeon Park, full of young Goths and Manga dressed teenagers, down hill to the beautiful St. Pauls Square, through the alleyways of ancient tree’s to an impressive

Kerry James Marshall "Because it can’t be radical, there is a sense in which painting is over, even though loads of paintings are made, exhibited and sold, still. One way of being radical, for a painting

I am happy to announce that I will be on this years Sky Arts Landscape artist of the year. The photo above is from my heat which will be shown on the 13th November. I hope you all enjoy it.

I have finally brought my JainMcKay.com and attached it to my blog. I hope you all go and have a look and let me know what you think. I don't know if all you artists out there have websites and find it

I'm in another exhibition at the moment organised by Worcester Photography Open Salon, this is a great group of photographers based in Worcester. I had not made a new tessellated digital piece for quite

A good week for all art fans, on Thursday RBSA have a lecture by the new Professor of Painting John Devine at 6.30. Also at 6.30 on Friday Asylum Gallery have a Private view of Hauntology which should

A new teacher recently took over the Wolverhampton Society of Artists life class, I say teacher but although she is a teacher she doesn’t teach during that class, it’s more of an organisational role. She

The Wolverhampton University MA show was at New Art Gallery Walsall this year, I went along to see how it looked in a professional venue and I must say it made all the difference. The show used to be at

Oil Painting Tips for Beginners Want to try oil paints but not sure where to start? Are you worried oil painting might be too difficult? Follow these tips and you'll enjoy the beauty of oil paints in no

This painting is growing on me since I painted it a couple of days ago, I was going to put a green wash over the white vines but I'm starting to really like the white as it is mirrored in the white in