a visit to cape foulwind
8 October 2020
A road trip back up to the top of the South Island took us to a visit to a friend's place on Cape Foulwind. Here is a part of the South Island we hadn't really properly explored that much before and i...
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new in my sketchbooks
24 September 2020
It's been winter (of course!), so not as much outside sketching as I would like. The adventures have still been happening, but the sketchbook has often just stayed in my pack. Seems I'm not as tough a...
new watercolour painting tutorial
10 September 2020
Excited to announce I have a new full length video tutorial. In this one we paint this ruined miner's hut which is in the historic, gold mining settlement of Welshtown near my home. I visited this ske...
landscape painting class
30 August 2020
Here are a few photos from a very fun day teaching watercolour landscape painting techniques in Wanaka, New Zealand. Students worked on 2 different scenes, painting along with me. And they worked very...
zoom painting class - august 2020
5 August 2020
Another wonderful Zoom class on 2 August, with 4 students joining me to paint a seascape from the Archway Islands at Wharariki Beach at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. It's amazing what ev...
a month in golden bay
19 July 2020
So we were meant to have a little escape from our frosty home down south. A couple of weeks at the top of the South Island, to warm our souls. Turns out it was hard to tear ourselves away after a mont...
new online painting lessons
10 June 2020
I have two new landscape lessons available on my website. Both cover a large number of skills from composition, to colour mixing, to painting wet on wet and wet on dry. You learn how to paint skies, m...
painting old boats - online watercolour lesson
9 May 2020
In this online lesson we get to paint this very pretty scene. I break it down into small achievable parts - rainy sky, water and reflections and, of course, boats. At the end you'll have a beautiful p...
a day in the maniototo
19 April 2020
Back in March I was invited by Catlins artist Lynley van Alphen to join her on a day's plein air painting in Central Otago. The day was showery and squally, but it didn't put us off and we both comple...