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After a very busy few weeks and the opening of my exhibition at the Castle, we both needed a break and to spend some time together. But yet again August brought rain, and cool winds so we escaped to the...

The title and theme for my 5th solo exhibition at The Castle, Bude was ‘The Sea and Me’ After losing Mum in February, this became a much more spiritual journey of paintings. In fact only one was painted from an...

We had been out for the evening, were heading home after a couple of lovely gin and tonics at the Deck watching the sunset. On our return home we called back to see friends at the beachhut. After a gin...

Probably not the best of ideas to commit to helping a friend do wild flowers for a wedding in the week leading up to my exhibition, but I just couldn’t resist it. I was flattered to have even been asked!....

The roundabout coming into Bude has never looked very inspiring and when the council removed all the planting in 2016, close friend Jane and I saw our opportunity. We had always joked about wanting to guerilla garden it and give...

Around 8pm I decided to take off to Northcott Mouth, a favourite beach just a mile away. I needed to see the sea, maybe do some sketching, but mostly just be. It was a pretty ordinary sort of day and...