Gwen John was a remarkable Welsh Artist, whose paintings have a strange beauty and, on the surface, may appear deceptively simple, but is in fact subtlety complex. This is the story of how Gwen John's colour palette was recreated.

A J Ludlow Ltd is proud to be a sponsor of the International Watercolour Masters 2026 Event at Lilleshall Hall, Shropshire. A watercolour painting by Andrew Ludlow will be hung with the Masters at the IWM 2026 event.

Watercolour painting is a relaxing and enjoyable activity for the whole family to do together. Especially when the festival season is approaching. Creating your own watercolour Christmas cards to give to relations and friends is a wonderfully personal and heartfelt gesture

Andrew answers your questions and explains what makes A J Ludlow Professional Watercolour paints unique and showcases many of the watercolour's properties that makes our watercolour a cut above the rest.

We look forward each year to making new friends and seeing old ones, at the Living Crafts Festival of Art, Craft and Design, not only those amongst the artists and craftspeople, but also from the visitors who come to visit us during the four-day event.

Eight months after launching the A J Ludlow “All you need to paint..” range of Professional Watercolour painting sets, Andrew examines why they are still causing quite a stir!

In this tale of two books, Andrew turns back the pages of history and takes a glimpse at watercolours from the late-nineteenth century.

In this month’s ARTicle, our guest artist Jonathan Pullen describes a 5-step process on how he approaches and creates a watercolour painting in the “Realism” style.

It’s a little over a year since I began using A J Ludlow Professional Watercolours; it seems a good time to give an update to my first ARTicle in April 2023, on my experiences of using them and to tell you what I’ve done over the past year.