A couple of weeks ago I started work on the new painting that I’ve been wanting to do for the last eighteen months.. ever since… Read More »Working on it and through it to capture the enigmatic magical moments
Here are the two latest drawings I finished recently, and promised at the beginning of the week, of Kent. They are the same style and… Read More »Latest Kent drawings including one of my all time favourite places
Over the years that I’ve known Derbyshire writer Stuart Haywood he has commissioned me to do some very diverse pieces of art for him, and… Read More »And that’s how my painting got to be hanging on a Rothchilds wall
Earlier on this week I rang the woman who used to come to me for private weekly art classes when I lived in Leicestershire. I’m… Read More »Keep putting it off and you will never get around to it, I know!
I am not fully sure why it has taken me until the 11th of January in this new year to write the first blog post… Read More »New year new decade new start 2020
As I look back on this year at the massive changes in my life from a year ago, I congratulate myself on all that I… Read More »As 2019 draws to a close
It’s always a funny time of year, Christmas, an odd eclectic mix of happy and sad, poignant, and silly. This year I am looking forward… Read More »Christmas wishes
When I went to the fabulously festive Dickens festival in Rochester in early December I was so inspired in the place and the history of… Read More »Kent bound
I write about one hundred Christmas cards every year, remembering friends, and family, neighbours old and new, and its also a good opportunity to keep… Read More »Remembering to be grateful
Part of the excitement of moving to Kent was wanting to get involved with the seasonal celebrations of the area. I heard about the Charles… Read More »Immersing into a new Victorian Christmas
I was chatting to a friend of mine over the weekend who had just come back from a Caribbean cruise and I asked her how… Read More »Finding delight in the smallest of details
When I was finally able to get working on the commission of the picture for the young woman (in her mid 20’s) that I was… Read More »The most challenging piece of artwork I have ever done
The “warrior girl” commission that I am working on at the moment is complicated. I knew it would be. Because its not just copying one… Read More »Getting to the point of being able to start
When we came to buy this house in Kent, we fell in love with it for many reasons. We were aware it was on top… Read More »My everchanging canvas
Moving house has kept me incredibly busy, packing up my house in Leicestershire, and unpacking again in Kent as well as all the odd jobs… Read More »Its been so difficult to put this on hold, its been bubbling inside me for five months