Sophie Welsh Art

There are some exhibitions you enjoy, some you admire, and then there are those that send you back to your studio raring to go. This summer Hurvin Anderson's exhibition at Tate Britain belonged firmly in the latter category.

An afternoon with Joan Eardley and Natasha Cooke at the Rye Art Gallery - Left to the Land. I popped into Rye Art Gallery this weekend and emerged two hours later feeling as though someone had given me and my painting practice a good shake. In the best possible way.

Each month, I’ll choose a photograph sent by a friend on their travels and see where it takes me. It might be somewhere wonderfully far-flung, or a place closer to home caught in remarkable beauty. Geography gets it through the door; something in the image has to make me want to paint.