shop update
7 November 2018
6 months in Spain and France just flew by. I sketched and painted more than ever filling 2 and half sketchbooks and 12 big A3 sheets and 4 smaller A4 sheets. Painting as large as A3 on location was a ...
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summer sketchbook
15 April 2018
I've recently finished my little sketchbook and my bigger one is almost done too! This one starts back in November 2017 and goes until just a few days ago. The first sketches show lots of fresh spring...
10 new watercolours available
3 April 2018
Very excited to announce that I've added a new set of watercolours to my shop today! Find them here. Here they are - some of my best moments from this summer, captured on paper. While my abstract land...
painting mount aspiring
24 March 2018
Mount Aspiring is the gem of the mountains near my home. It even has a whole national park named after it. I was lucky enough to climb it with David and our friend Lexi in 2012 - a really stunning cli...
just another mushroom
22 March 2018
I'd been visiting this mushroom everyday from when I first spotted it just peeping out of the ground. Each day it was just a little bigger, and a little more perfect. One evening David and I decided t...
little french villages
6 September 2017
Two months in France have just flown by and I have finished my first large sketchbook - the Fabriano one shown above. I've also added scores of little landscapes sketches to my little pocket Moleskine...
sketching little spanish villages
18 August 2017
My poor blog has been unattended as we travel through Europe, because we haven't had enough mobile data to keep it up to date. Today I'm at a friend's house in France and I thought I'd hop onto their ...
hiking sketch kit
13 August 2017
I've taken sketching gear pretty much everywhere with me. I even took a super super lightweight kit with me when we went on a climbing trip to Patagonia. But over the years my hiking kit has become mo...
autumn inspiration
25 April 2017
It's a crazy life. This week we've been immersed in enjoying autumn and next week we'll be enjoying spring. Yes, it's time to pack again for our annual migration to the Northern Hemisphere. Time to pa...