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For the last two weeks I've been doing some good old fashioned observation drawing in pencil. You can see the results on my latest…Read more  →All Hung Up

    For over two years now, I've been putting things in a card folder that I feel could be useful to me developing…Read more  →In The Folder

    I've just finished reading Alice Loxton's excellent new book 'Eleanor'. In it, she describes her own journey on foot to discover the…Read more  →Eleanor Rides Again

I think I've finished my latest painting 'Time Frames' (though I'm never sure until it's whisked off to the framers) so I'm releasing the…Read more  →Buy A Piece Of My Brain

An easy answer as far as my family are concerned - get him something for the dolls house! I've had the house since 2000…Read more  →What Shall We Get Him?

One New Year treat this year was to visit the Watts Gallery again. This time we concentrated on looking at his Painting and Sculpture…Read more  →Studio Envy

Although I used the image of Ely Cathedral for my painting of 2011 - 'Another Year' it's really about something quite different. The dusk…Read more  →Together At Last

In 1954 I saw a live show with Sooty and Harry Corbett in Hull where we lived. I was about eight at the time.…Read more  →Oh Yes It Is

  Taking advantage of staying with my son and grandson again , I did another study of the latter's toy guns for a painting…Read more  →Getting Ahead Of Myself