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  • Winter Sunshine

    Winter Sunshine

    Tavira feels like Bude but warmer and more days of blue skies. We are staying on the east side of the bridge overlooking the river girao with its famous Roman bridge spanning it. Unrestored, but used, a little cafe and...

  • A Winter's Sojourn

    I love to go to West Penwith, the area between St Ives, Lands End and Penzance. The coast has spectacular light and the colour of the sea is mesmerizing, but I also like the largely unchanged landscape of the lanes...

  • Putting 'Coastscape' into the dictionary

    Putting 'Coastscape' into the dictionary

    I paint the sea and landscape, sometimes seperately but often together and it’s mostly about where the two meet. It seems natural to me that the word ‘Coastscape’ might exist, but the dictionary and a Google search brought no results....

  • Successful 2015

    It’s been a busy year with a very successful exhibition ‘Colours of a Tangled Coastline’ and working with the #cruelandcurious collective and the National Trust for ‘Hinterland’. I am keen to explore and develop new ideas for a series of...

  • Impressions of madeira

    Apart from art, I love to travel and after a summer that was decidedly cool, we took advantage of the opportunity to get away in November and gave Madeira a go with it’s subtropical scenery and warm climate. The landing...

  • Falling in love with Oils

    A weekend away at Newlyn Art School always motivates and gets the inspiration going, but will I make the switch to Oils? A two day course in Oil and Abstraction with Gareth Edwards certainly lent me towards giving this medium...