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Days lengthen as we travel through February. The sun starts to rise north, it's heat already apparent, catching the trunk of...

It's been pretty much wall to wall sunshine since March. Days spent outside under clear skies, strong shadows created by high sun. With...

Wishing you all a merry Christmas, with one eye on the fresh new year that will be 2020. #drawing #pastel #frost #field #landscape...

Pastel and pen sketch. #HeleBay #Ilfracombe #sketch #drawing #rocks #Coast

#charcoal #copse #drawing

As ever, the year starts with a peaceful lull as people settle back into their routines. It takes a while. As most, I usually find this...

Christmas usually sees a few new sketchbooks, their pages clean, inviting the stroke of a brush. Up by the lake the banks have been...

Sometimes, when considering a problem, it is necessary to shift the mind into another gear. When seeking to see in another way, the...

Beautiful sunny autumn is here in the south west of England. Leaves turning colour have the perfect backdrop of cloudless blue skies....

Just when there are few posts on the blog, one is posted and along comes another in hot pursuit. There is a reason of course. The...

We're not quite there yet, that part of the year when the nights take over from day. We are instead at that calm moment when days are...

Visiting Bruton in Somerset, which has at gallery Hauser & Wirth on it's outskirts, I arranged to meet artist and friend, Caroline...

It wasn't too early and yet unusually I had the place to myself. Intending to make a few marks on paper, there was a sketchbook tucked...

It's been a while since I've sat down to draw a study which isn't leafy and free and have to admit that there was a creeping doubt that...

Pastels in sketchbook. The moors drop into the sea at a dramatic angle in North Devon. It makes just about every beach scene along this...

It was Ian in the workshop who asked whether I had painted anything recently. Just that one comment obviously started something. It was...

Sketch with tape The land's contours show up more when lined by sprouting furrows, the long rectangles echoed in catkins opening to...

Tilly and I have started walking in a different area as the usual tracks have turned to mud in the February lanes. The ivy-strewn copse...

May the rest of the year be as sweet and crisp 😊 There's a battle going on between projects at the moment. It's a problem which occurs...