A GREAT ESCAPE - ANDALUCIA 17th - 24th May 2022
Come join me for an immersive week drawing and painting flowers, fruit and insects - what ever takes you fancy - in the foothills of the...
Time to draw and paint in troubled times
In this time of uncertainty many of us have found ourselves confined to our homes with our daily routine disrupted and our thoughts full...
A Botanical Masterclass in Transylvania
Soft Falls the Autumn Light: Exploring a delicacy of fading colour with a strength of presentation; painting the flora, sylva, fungi and...
Far Fetched Botanicals: Plants that have inspired Fairy Tales
During the past year I have been concentrating on my latest project painting the plants that have inspired fairy tales. I have spent...
Summer Colour
A busy, but colourful summer. Back from a creative weekend at West Dean College 'Exploring Colour'. As ever the garden came up trumps. ...
Bee's a buzzing
After such a long dreer winter - the sun - at last - to warm us and bring out the bees. The garden is springing into life with hoorays....
Saving the Bees
For Christmas I was given a collection of fabulous gift collection from Neal's Yard Remedies from their 'Bee Lovely and Help Save the...
Ochre and earth pigments
December sees the end of the term for classes - and for me everything slows down, giving me time to spend time on my own work which...
Hedgerows and Fabulous Fungi
The diminishing colours of autumn and the reduction of bright intense colour to the soft subtle neutral tones, lead on to the study of...
Spent flowers and seed pods
I'm back from my travels and the brilliance of summer colour is fading fast in the garden. Before tidying up I gathered an armful and...
