16 December 2022
Christmas card printmaking, low fi, at home diy style
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I made Christmas cards this year, partly to celebrate having more energy and my gradual recovery from Long Covid. These are made at h...
26 August 2020
Things Falling Apart - Three Frottage Drawings in Charcoal
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During the lockdown, I joined a small group of fellow printmakers from Shadwell Print Studio on a test online course, w...
07 August 2020
A bowl of ripe plums
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It has been a fair while, friends. Particularly if we aren't waving over to each other on Instagram already. Still. Here's a water...
30 October 2018
A beach painting for grey November days
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I was experimenting. With ways to work from travel photos, freehand watercolour and taking inspiration from one of my favourite watercol...
16 August 2018
Notes on my weekly life drawing class.
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It is so tempting to throw out the lot. And equally tempting to keep every one of the drawings in the unwieldy, growing pile of work that ac...
06 June 2018
Meditation notes - drawing in the Kalahari.
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Here's a drawing made in the shelter of a cool, shady bird hide at Nossob, a camp deep in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, some 200 ...
23 March 2017
Despatches from the jungle
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I made this drawing sitting in the conservatory at Kew yesterday. The soundtrack was sometimes long stretches of quiet, just the scrapin...
01 April 2016
Meditation notes: drawing
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I wish you could also smell these blossoms. It is a d elicate scent , a bit like honey, a bit like almonds. Outside , I hadn't re...
10 March 2016
A link to my illustrations in the TV gardening show, if you want to catch up
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Here are of my favourite illustrations made for use in the graphics for BBC2 gardening show, Big Dreams Small Spaces, Series Two . I s...
18 February 2016
My plants on BBC2 again - on tonight
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I loved working on this last autumn with animation company Flock , who did the graphics for Lion TV's Series Two of Big Dreams Small...
08 September 2015
Autumn colours seeping in
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It's kind of the sketching version of shooting fish in a barrel, drawing autumn leaves. As in, you can't really go wrong. But I c...
02 July 2015
Holiday drawing
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I usually don't draw much on holiday, but I have a happy memory of drawing these early one evening while D was making dinner in the...
03 April 2015
Happy Easter 2015
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Hot cross buns, catkins, blackthorn blossom and daffodils in all shapes and sizes...Easter in the northern hemisphere makes sense. Of...
19 March 2015
Painting wildflowers in December...
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I was commissioned to paint a small wildflower painting for the lovely Catherine, erstwhile of St Mary's Secret Garden, as a leaving ...
14 February 2015
Happy Valentine's Day
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I am partial to Valentine's Day myself. It's nice to know someone was willing to wade into the commercial fray to indulge my ...
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