If only I had more time to devote to the garden  In winter I pour over magazines and visit gardening sites dreaming of sunny days.
Each Summer I have great plans to spend more time in the garden.  At the weekend when the weather is fine, I do just that.  During the week when my working day [...]

This year the blossom trees have really been a joy to behold.  As I promised myself in my last blog - I took my camera and recorded the beauty of the wonderful blossom on one of the many trees in flower in my village.

Blue blue skies & cherry blossom

Beautiful

Do I ever have a typical day?  No, not really.  I will try and put into words a day in my life as an artist/illustrator.
I usually try and start the day with a walk and short run.  I live in the English countryside and today I walked along the local canal hoping to see the [...]

Where did they go ………

Recently I changed my web hosting company. For some crazy reason I lost a number of blogs. Where did they go??….. some where out in the ether they are floating around without a home.

I hope to resume writing my blog in between running my studio and spending time [...]

In the eaves of our cottage are two carefully constructed mud nests.  Each morning this summer I have opened my bedroom window to see and hear the chattering of a family of house martins.  These elegant fast moving birds are a marvel as they dip and dive.
While house martins can be seen across the UK [...]

 
Stop the world I want to get off!  Well OK maybe not.  In truth this brave new world of technology provides exciting and horizon-broadening new perspectives on the creative process and its commercial application.  As an artist illustrator who started working before email and the internet I often ponder, how do I fit [...]

 
A strong market has always existed for popular art to be used on a variety of consumer products.  Designs used range from Monet’s iconic lily pond paintings of his garden at Giverny, to the fictionalised and dreamy beach scenes created more recently by Jack Vettriano.  Such popular images tend to ride successive waves of popular [...]