12 January 2023
High in the hills of Sardinia we came across this abandoned railway station. It's pink! My favourite colour :-) All sorts of interesting parts to this sketch - one and two point perspective, winter tr...
17 January 2021
Another super lovely painting session with folks across the globe. This time we visited Venice and painted a beautiful sunset scene in neutral tones. We covered painting with one of my favourite triad...
5 November 2017
I took a trip down memory lane yesterday and made a calendar with 13 of my sketches of little mountain villages in France, Spain and Italy. It is available through Redbubble and can ship anywhere in t...
20 August 2016
Almost everyone who pages through my sketchbook asks 'How long does one of your paintings take?' The answer is ... around about 2 hours. That's a long time to sit in one spot! But here's the thing. I ...
5 August 2016
I thought it would be fun to take a series of shots showing the steps I take when doing one of my urban sketches. Here is the scene I chose. It's in the tiny town of Daghei in the Dolomites in Italy. ...
31 July 2016
It has been ages since I wrote a blog post because we've been spending the last few weeks in the mountains with very little mobile coverage. And, to be honest, when we're in solitude-mode, I don't oft...
5 February 2016
For the next month I will have a number of my travel journals and urban sketches on display at the Wanaka Library. These sketchbooks and paintings are from many years of travel in New Zealand, Europe,...
4 January 2016
As I continue to grow as an artist, I find immense value in going back and reflecting on work I've completed in the past. I'm good at dating most of my works and it is heartening, especially when I'm ...
24 October 2015
David and I love the Mediterranean. It suits me especially because I love the sea, but I'm a real scaredy-cat when it comes to waves. It's not that I'm not a good swimmer, it's just that I was born wa...