15 November 2018
The Magic of Painting & Sketching Outside. 8 & 9 December 2018 (8am to 3pm) $300pp, max 5 people. Location : Wanaka, New Zealand. I have had a number of people asking if I will be running painting cla...
15 April 2018
I've recently finished my little sketchbook and my bigger one is almost done too! This one starts back in November 2017 and goes until just a few days ago. The first sketches show lots of fresh spring...
9 April 2018
Here is a true New Zealand icon - Milford Sound (Piopiotahi), with Mitre Peak standing proud on the left and The Lion guarding on the right. I did a watercolour sketch of this classic view from next t...
3 April 2018
Very excited to announce that I've added a new set of watercolours to my shop today! Find them here. Here they are - some of my best moments from this summer, captured on paper. While my abstract land...
24 March 2018
Mount Aspiring is the gem of the mountains near my home. It even has a whole national park named after it. I was lucky enough to climb it with David and our friend Lexi in 2012 - a really stunning cli...
13 August 2017
I've taken sketching gear pretty much everywhere with me. I even took a super super lightweight kit with me when we went on a climbing trip to Patagonia. But over the years my hiking kit has become mo...
13 October 2016
If you had said to us a month ago that we were beach people we would have scoffed. "You mean, like, lying in the sun, reading a book, on your tiny patch of sand, with a hundred other people. No way!" ...
31 July 2016
It has been ages since I wrote a blog post because we've been spending the last few weeks in the mountains with very little mobile coverage. And, to be honest, when we're in solitude-mode, I don't oft...
18 March 2016
Next weekend is the annual group exhibition for my local Wanaka Arts Society. I will have 8 paintings in the exhibition - 4 small, unframed watercolour paintings and 4 large abstract landscapes (2 on ...