

Last of Japan, first of Hong Kong...
We travelled south from Osaka on the bullet trains at about 200mph ( fantastic trains) to a dedicated art island, Naoshima, staying in...


South Africa
I'm sorry to have missed the snow a 2nd time this winter. However swimming in Antarctic-temperature seas makes up for it! A few pics...


Great to see the work that emerged from our landscape project today.
Some of the work still in progress, a lovely day of making working drawings which were then translated into the paintings you see here....


SUNDAY WORKSHOP November 10th Landscape - drawing into painting.
I'm almost home from my amazing road trip! Here is the outline plan of the workshop day below. This workshop day is about the working...


A few more!
Storm Ashley was impressive and luckily mostly blew at night. The weather has been fantastically changeable! Driving horizontal rain,...


Disaster! I think I've deleted all my recent posts! So I'll do a 'last of Japan and first of Hong Kong' and we'll start again from there!!
We travelled south from Osaka on the bullet train at a speed of 200mph to an art island called Naoshima where we stayed in a very typical...


A lovely busy workshop with fantastic results - landscape with a dynamic foreground reference.
I asked my students to choose a landscape image from which to make an initially simple structured drawing. Then they cut out large tree...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 23RD MARCH 2025. Landscape: Structures and Composition.
In this workshop we're going to look at the structures in a landscape, particularly foreground reference. Above are three examples of...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 16TH FEBRURY 2025 - Watercolour technique and process.
We'll be using large fragments of magazine image to practice our watercolour technique. The magazine scraps become the colours, tones and...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 26TH JANUARY 2025 - Working in small sketch books.
Sketching in small sketch books, workshop, Pimperne, Sunday 26th January, 10am – 4pm. You’ll need a large variety of media –...