I made Christmas cards this year, partly to celebrate having more energy and my gradual recovery from Long Covid. These are made at h...

During the lockdown, I joined a small group of fellow printmakers from Shadwell Print Studio on a test online course, w...

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...

I was experimenting. With ways to work from travel photos, freehand watercolour  and taking inspiration from one of my favourite watercol...

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...

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 ...

I made this drawing sitting in the conservatory at Kew yesterday. The soundtrack was sometimes long stretches of quiet, just the scrapin...

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...

Here are of my favourite illustrations made for use in the graphics for BBC2 gardening show, Big Dreams Small Spaces, Series Two .  I s...

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...

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...

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...

Hot cross buns, catkins, blackthorn blossom and daffodils in all shapes and sizes...Easter in the northern hemisphere makes sense. Of...

I was commissioned to paint a small wildflower painting for the lovely Catherine, erstwhile of St Mary's Secret Garden, as a leaving ...

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 ...