Blog

  • Kids love Art!

    I haven’t been in a classroom for 15 years since I helped out with my own children at primary school, but when asked by a friend Carole to spend a morning inspiring 8 and 9 yr olds with seascape painting,...

  • Creativity moves into the Kitchen

    September always flies by. There was some lovely late summer sunshine and it’s always a dash to collect the autumn berries to make a few preserves especially when a basket full of fallers (apples) are starting to look a bit...

  • Trevone, a coastline pocket of loveliness

    Padstow and Bude are both in North Cornwall, but in many ways poles apart. The coastline is softer around the camel estuary with more sand dunes, whereas Bude is a haven with the steepest most dramatic cliffs towering down towards...

  • Beautiful Bude, Boats and Lock Gates with the Hungry Sailors

    Over the last 10 days, a film crew have been in Bude filming Dick and James Strawbridge aka ” the hungry sailors”. During filming they spent time on the beaches with Bude Surf Life-saving Club, cooked a fish stew, made...

  • Marketing, Networking and New Prints

    Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are now vital parts of my marketing strategy. Oh.. hear me say that!. I’m no businesswoman; I like to paint and create; but for a few minutes a day, I can get in touch with the...

  • If Stones could speak, poetry would be their words

    Stones are by their nature very old and many have travelled across continents, either naturally through the milennia of glacier movement or simply tumbled down streams or across oceans. It is a nice idea that “If stones could speak, poetry...