11 January 2017
It has been years and years since I've done any 'proper' portrait work. With Heidi here in the studio we both felt it would be awesome to do something we're both out of touch with. As I mentioned in m...
10 January 2017
For 3 weeks we have our friend Heidi visiting from Norway. She's a climber and an artist and so our interests are super compatible. There's now more than double energy in my studio and each day we're ...
27 December 2016
I've been painting up a storm in my studio and have paint everywhere and on everything! Here are a few pieces that I have finished in the last couple of weeks. "The Yellow House" Acrylics on unstretch...
18 December 2016
After many weeks of painting birds, and 7 whole months of just watercolours, I now have my acrylics out. That means lots of playing with paint, getting paint everywhere and on everything and abstracts...
6 December 2016
Here is a Chaffinch. He's the smartest dressed bird in my garden. He never goes out unless he is perfectly groomed :-) And here's what I read about Chaffinches. They make lots of chip and cheep calls,...
6 December 2016
Summer is here!. We've been having a lot of adventures outside (photos to come!), and in my studio my series of NZ Birds is ticking along quite nicely. You'll notice I'm still on the little local bird...
25 November 2016
Back home in beautiful Central Otago, we've been having the most lush Spring I can ever remember. No art this time, just photos :-) Meanwhile, in the studio, I'm continuing with my New Zealand bird se...
23 November 2016
Way back in April, before we left for Europe, I had an art date with my friend Anna and we painted birds from a beautiful old calendar. Anna went realistic and painted the majestic Fish Eagle, I paint...
13 October 2016
If you had said to us a month ago that we were beach people we would have scoffed. "You mean, like, lying in the sun, reading a book, on your tiny patch of sand, with a hundred other people. No way!" ...