Painting Pigeons (at St Mary's, Isles Of Scilly)

I came across Angela Hadrill’s work at the Brighton Illustration Fair. I was drawn to her work for her colour choices and use of watercolour. I believed Jen would be a big fan, and told Angela that if Jen managed to come down, I could bet she’d say something! I bumped into Angela a few days after, found her website and had to ask her some questions. Enjoy! What are your favourite materials to work with? All of my work uses watercolours and a bit of gouache. I’ve only been using them for a couple of years, so I still feel as if I’m learning how to paint which is a lot of fun. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with colour; the transparency of watercolour means that you can get such a lot of colour variation depending on which pigments you use so I get to try out so many different colours. We adore ‘Marseille’ which goes along the poem by Marcus Truin, how did you guys connect? We’ve been a couple for a while and about a year into meeting him I got to read some of his work. He had written an anthology of poems which were fantastic and I really wanted to collaborate with him. …