We recently spent a week up in Ardgour, Scotland where the scenery was wonderfully dramatic. Here’s the first of what I hope will be a powerful series of paintings. This one was painted with...

I have recently returned to watercolour wet into wet work and have really enjoyed moving between landscape inspired moodscapes and purely abstract pieces. There’s a great freedom in mixing a...

We had a great time opening up our home in sync with the Rossendale Art Trail this weekend, met some of our neighbours, fellow artists exhibiting at the church opposite and managed to sell a decent...

I visited Hebden Bridge open studios last weekend and really enjoyed the ‘artistic vibe’ that was going on there. At the end of the day, I came across an artist called Anna Gibson whose...

I have been reading a book called ‘The View from the Studio Door’ which is about how artists find their way in an uncertain world. It has made me reflect upon why I paint and what matters...

I received an early Easter present last week with the sale of the following prints from Longitude gallery in Clitheroe. I’m heading over there this week to take them a small collection of...

I’ve been working on this website for the last couple of days, adding the ‘Seascapes’ and ‘Happenings’ pages and tweaking my information generally. Please have a good...

There are days when I feel like God is in his heaven and all is well with the world. This week’s workshops in s o u l s p a c e were like that. As theologian Frederick Buechner once said...

My last day of filming for the Landscape Sketching Course went really well, I think. I produced 4 final Landscape Sketches, bringing some of the elements of landscape sketching together from the...