The inspirational landscape seen from Bullclough Art School I've just returned from a wonderful painting course at Bullclough Art School in the Peak District National Park. Now you may have noticed that my previous blog post was about an art course in Yorkshire so I have indulged myself somewhat this summer! But the experience was so, so good that I feel fully justified in investing in my own personal creative development. I can wholeheartedly recommend it as a way to shake u

These mixed-media paintings were made during a five day "Walking and Drawing" course in North Yorkshire with Debbie Loane of Lund Studios. We travelled to some marvellous locations and enjoyed working out of doors - no easels, just on the ground on long pieces of paper folded into a concertina. The shape really suited the wide panorama views of the moors and valleys we were seeing. The fields were a lovely fresh green, with the distinctive dark lines of dry stone walls runnin

Well, they've been a long time coming but I'm pleased to unveil my new large garden compositions. I think I did the drawings for these in...

I started working on these two summer garden compositions back in January. It's May now and they are still not complete but very close....

I've been working on two projects simultaneously over the last few weeks in different media.

From time to time, I share with you photographs from our garden and allotment. They feel like a little piece of heaven when the evening...

If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that I've been working on a series of seascapes in monotype. It's one of my...

Dunstanburgh Sunrise, image size 32 x 74 cm framed size 55 x 96cm NOW SOLD! Do you remember the lyrics " Sunset, sunrise, swiftly flow the days " from the Roger Whittaker song? We played the LP over and over when I was a girl. I understand the meaning now that my first born is off to university and my second is as tall as me and will soon be a man! More literally, I've just completed these two sunset/sunrise original monotypes and I'm working on two night sky ones. I find it

I'm delighted to share with you my latest seascape originals. For this series I was inspired by the Outer Hebrides although none of them...

I have a new project underway with an expressive theme after being inspired on a recent course at The Lund in North Yorkshire with well...