We walked this in two stages. First, on a crisp morning we stepped out along The Ridgeway from Overton Hill towards Barbary Castle. The day was full of promise and the path clear and true, pointing straight off into the distance. And it was almost hypnotic, so we kept going further and further all the […]
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Printing The Ridgeway : The Start. In December last year,2021, when the weather was unseasonably mild and I was fed up being indoors, I took my sketchbook and went to Avebury, Wiltshire. It was a clear blustery day and there were very few people about, altogether the best sort of day for drawing. So, that’s
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Well, it’s that time of the year again and the Welsh Poppies are out in my garden. It’s always great to see them but all the more so today. My exhibition opens on Wednesday 4th May and several books in which welsh poppies feature will be on display. “Welsh Poppies with Bees” is a small
Living where I do, you can not help but be aware of all the pressures on our countryside. If it’s not a new housing development, it’s the threat of a new road. So I was delighted to hear about the group Avon Needs Trees. These amazing people have planted numerous trees at Stanley Lane and
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I am pleased to announce that I am taking part in this year’s CLOTH ROAD ARTS TRAIL, a week long open studio event in Wiltshire. 4 May 2022 – 7 May 2022 Exhibition Room, Bradford on Avon Library, Bridge Street, Bradford on Avon. BA15 1BY Opening Times: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am -1pm and 2pm –
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It certainly feels like Autumn here now but the Paper Daisies in my garden have other ideas. They are still flowering, keeping summer going through all the wind and rain. Perhaps that is why I’ve been working so hard to draw them. The weather isn’t nice enough to sketch outdoors at the moment, so I
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21 May 2021. Well today has been quite a day, invigilating at an exhibition, the first for over a year. It’s good to be back!! So, the exhibition was “Modify”, amazingly the seventh Open Print exhibition at 44AD art space in Bath and, I think, it was the best so far. A testament to the
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20th April 2021. Last summer I did a lot of walking and drawing in the countryside where I live. The rolling hills formed a dramatic backdrop to the slender wildflowers that reached up through the undergrowth at the edges of the fields, looking for the sky. I think the dish-shaped chicory flowers where my favourite,
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15 March 2012. Well it’s feels like Spring time, a time for new beginnings, lockdown is gradually easing and, I’m in the mood for making new work. Last Summer, my son and I went walking and of course I took my drawing book. I became fascinated by the simple beauty of Wiltshire country churches. They
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What a mixed bag of weather we have had this month, heavy rain winds and even some snow. We had also had some beautiful sunny days that have been unseasonably warm. So I have managed to use this time to make drawings of the first spring flowers. Snowdrops of course but also crocuses, aconites and
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