21 March 2017
Summer finally arrived in February. Rather lazy of it to wake up so late, but never mind, we made the most of it. 6 trips in 6 weeks! The mornings and evenings are getting cooler now, and the leaves a...
30 January 2017
Although my sketchbook is never far away on pretty much every trip outdoors, I do also have a new SLR camera, a Nikon D5500, that has become my constant companion. I've had to start using a bigger day...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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!" ...
7 September 2016
Bestue, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, near the national park of Ordesa & Monte Perdido had the following description on the tourist map we have ... "one of the villages in Sobrarbe that has most s...
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 ...