

A lovely busy workshop with fantastic results - landscape with a dynamic foreground reference.
I asked my students to choose a landscape image from which to make an initially simple structured drawing. Then they cut out large tree...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 23RD MARCH 2025. Landscape: Structures and Composition.
In this workshop we're going to look at the structures in a landscape, particularly foreground reference. Above are three examples of...


Wonderful work and a happy day at today's workshop, watercolour processes.
Today my students were working with classic watercolour processes. They used fragments of magazine pictures as a 'prompt' for the...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 16TH FEBRURY 2025 - Watercolour technique and process.
We'll be using large fragments of magazine image to practice our watercolour technique. The magazine scraps become the colours, tones and...


Fabulous workshop last Sunday - working from small sketch books.
It's taken me a while to update the website as my internet has been down - fixed now. W had a lovely day working from small still-lifes...


South Africa
I'm sorry to have missed the snow a 2nd time this winter. However swimming in Antarctic-temperature seas makes up for it! A few pics...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 26TH JANUARY 2025 - Working in small sketch books.
Sketching in small sketch books, workshop, Pimperne, Sunday 26th January, 10am – 4pm. You’ll need a large variety of media –...


Such a fantastic collection of work emerged from today's workshop!
We had a busy day working with the watercolour process - loose and wet layers onto which we built detail as the paper dried. All through...


December 22nd, SUNDAY WORKSHOP - Winter foliage in jam jars.
This is a late December workshop to give people a lovely day of art just before the Christmas rush. We'll be using lots of wet-into-wet...


Hong Kong - home already!
It's been a busy week mostly taking Felicity to all her classes - including nursery school, Montessori, swimming, football, coding and...