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After the Amsterdam trip, time just flew. It was a time to get the exhibition together, finish two large seascapes, do some promotion, help out with Bude Arts and Music and Summer Festival organising and say goodbye to our beloved...

It started with a fleeting glimpse of winter light over the sea with a heavy sky, a snapshot put to memory whilst walking the cliff path between Summerleaze and Crooklets Beach on a winters afternoon in January. Quick watercolour sketch...

Mother nature and the storms stripped the beaches of sand ,ancient petrified forests have been exposed along the coast, as well as the fibre optic cabling and items lost overboard years ago are appearing on the strand line. In the...

Galleries and Museums done, Amsterdam has so much more to offer and we like nothing better than to stroll around, sit outside cafes and people watch. In March, the trees are just starting to leaf up and will look beautiful...

All the info on Amsterdam says get there early to avoid the queues. We did just that, going in just after 9.30 am and it was worth it. It’s not a huge museum and his works are not that large,...

Full of museums and art galleries, you are spoilt for choice in Amsterdam. Top of the list had to be the Rijksmuseum, a ten year renovation project culminating in the lifting in of the Rembrandt’s mammoth painting ‘The Night Watch’....