Recently, given the lack of professional art studio around me because I am house-bound, I have decided to embrace the ‘rustic’, say-it-how-it-is approach.

I have been making a series of videos although they are clearly from my living room, I have tried to emerge from behind the usual professional ‘shopfront’ of The studio of Nicola Anthony, and have now just become 'Nicola that artist with the cats and a smudge of paint on her nose'.

As I am always asking you the audience, (as well as the communities I work with) to bare their souls and tell me their life story to be turned into artwork, it’s about time that the tables were turned!

On the video episodes below you can see what I have been up to in my studio, chatting to my art world mentors and videoing them (with permission) to share with you, using my cats and family members as the models and subject matter of my drawings, and generally making a mess: