new postcard club
9 December 2023
Just launched! A new Patreon tier where you can receive an original postcard painting from me each month - the Postcard Club. I love to paint tiny paintings, full of details and vibrant colours. Tiny ...
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autumn silver birches
16 November 2023
I couldn't let the year finish without an autumn scene :-) So here are some very pretty silver birches we spotted on a hike the other day. They just glow against the darker mountain behind! While the ...
snowy christmas robin
9 November 2023
I'm going to say it! Christmas is coming!! So let's get a bit of head start by painting a cute, little, fluffy robin in the snow. You can scan your finished painting and turn it into a Christmas card ...
sunlit ruin and stormy sky
4 November 2023
A couple of weeks ago I discovered a new abandoned town - Tiermas. This one is an old Roman town and had some beautiful medieval buildings, including a very large church. In the 1950s most of the town...
paint little boats in pen and watercolour
12 October 2023
For the last few years it's been a tradition for us to travel to the north coast of Spain for a little seaside holiday in September. Like migrating birds, we seem to be drawn (excuse the pun!) to the ...
paint a zebra in watercolour
24 August 2023
By the time you watch this video I will be in South Africa visiting my parents and we'll be in the Kruger National Park, hopefully seeing zebras in the flesh. Of course I'll have my sketchbook with me...
a little norwegian boathouse
10 August 2023
Such a wonderfully Norwegian type scene - the rainy sky, the lush green grass and the little yellow boathouse with it's tidy white flashings. It's just how I remember it being along many of the fjords...
painting a mountain climber
27 July 2023
We're finishing our month of big, snowy mountains with this painting from Fiordland in New Zealand. It's from a photo I took of my husband back in 2010. This is on one of our many mountaineering trips...
aoraki / mt cook at sunset
14 July 2023
We're back to New Zealand's highest peak this week. This time for one of New Zealand's most iconic and famous views - Aoraki / Mt Cook with Lake Pukaki in the foreground. And it's a sunset too - littl...