The Cuckoo, she's a pretty bird
"Sumer is icumen in" original linoprint The cuckoo she’s a pretty bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us glad tidings, And tells us...
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Painter and Printmaker
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Meadow Clocks
A blog post about my love of the seed head of the wild flower Goat's Beard
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Painter and Printmaker
May 25, 20213 min read
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh*
I had hoped to set forth this week, sketchbook in hand, to capture a pocket of the Waveney Valley that I have discovered just a couple of...
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Painter and Printmaker
Oct 4, 20202 min read
Arkful of Animals
This weekend a new exhibition opens at Diss Corn Hall entitled An Arkful of Animals and I am delighted that a selection of my work has been
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Painter and Printmaker
Jun 30, 20202 min read
My Print of Woodbine, Rose and Bramble
In my last post, I had made studies of these hedgerows plants and combined them into a preparatory drawing on the brink of its journey to...
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Painter and Printmaker
Jun 16, 20203 min read
Seeking the Overlooked: Woodbine, Rose and Bramble
Now the hedgerows are festooned with honeysuckle, generously draping itself over sapling trees and filling the pathways with its pale golden
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Painter and Printmaker
May 24, 20203 min read
The Moth Diaries
Moths are the perfect, obliging models, who sleep during the day. I take two or three into my studio to identify and draw, where they remai
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Painter and Printmaker
Nov 22, 20181 min read
A Christmas Nature Table
I have been beavering away these last few weeks and can now announce that a selection of my drawings and paintings are being shown at The...
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Painter and Printmaker
Nov 11, 20182 min read
Old Man - Lest We Forget
On a day when we remember those who gave so much, a poem by Edward Thomas who was killed in action on the 9th April, 1917, by a shell...
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Painter and Printmaker
Nov 7, 20185 min read
How to make a Linoprint
The following article appeared on Painters Online, the online edition of "The Artist" magazine and thought it might be useful for someone...
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Painter and Printmaker
Oct 28, 20182 min read
Turning Over a New Leaf
To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not...
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Painter and Printmaker
Oct 17, 20183 min read
The Last of Summer
I might appear that I have been a little tardy with blog posts over the summer, but the truth is I have found writing rather difficult....
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Painter and Printmaker
Jul 20, 20183 min read
Sweet Suffolk Owl
The happy discovery of a tawny owl family in my garden, made me long to have the opportunity to observe owls more closely, but I was very...
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Painter and Printmaker
Jul 20, 20182 min read
Moths and Moonshine
Those of you who follow me on Instagram and Twitter will know that I am rather partial to moths. The hot, still summer days of the past...
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Painter and Printmaker
Apr 8, 20182 min read
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. Winter...
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Painter and Printmaker
Jan 25, 20183 min read
Tim'rous beastie
I love winter, but this January has been a particularly dark, damp and dreich month and I have found myself looking for signs of spring...
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Painter and Printmaker
Nov 26, 20174 min read
It is never too late to climb trees
In sketching and thinking about trees, it has led me to remember with fondness the poem “Birches” by Robert Frost. This is a poem I have...
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