summertime flowers
7 July 2015
Wildflowers in Europe in summertime! Its hard to take a walk without spending most of the time crawling on your knees and taking photos on macro setting. I find myself sketching one tiny flower while ...
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an alternative view
13 June 2015
I always get a kick of of it when locals don't recognise the view I've sketched. This is the case in both the sketches above. While locals recognised their village church in the sketch at the top, the...
back in France
9 June 2015
Here is one of our favourite places in the world ... the Gorges de la Bourne in the Vercors mountains just south of Grenoble. This valley has rock climbing, BASE jumping and lots of old villages perfe...
new travel sketchbook
30 May 2015
You'll be seeing a lot of this book over the next few months. But most the photos will probably be of the inside so I thought you might like to see the cover. I always have fun with the cover. They're...
packing for the next adventure
28 May 2015
Next week we leave for the European summer for some adventuring and painting. Here, in New Zealand, it's very cold and wintery, so I'm looking forward to catching some UV. Our first stop will be Franc...
out and about with my sketchbook
21 May 2015
Winter has arrived with a bang and after about 10 days of continuous rain (more rain in one go than I ever remember), the sun came out, the clouds cleared and revealed the mountains all covered in fre...
autumn leaves
7 May 2015
Wanaka is world famous in New Zealand for it's Autumn colours. Most New Zealand native trees are evergreen so there's not usually much change of colour with the seasons. But Wanaka has a number of int...
arrowtown autumn festival art exhibition - 2015
29 April 2015
I am super excited to have 3 of my paintings selected to be in this years Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition. This is the first year I have entered pieces in this exhibition. Here I am looking s...
wanaka arts society easter exhibition 2015
2 April 2015
Here are 3 of my paintings ready to be hung with many others at the Wanaka Arts Society Exhibtion. It runs all this Easter weekend. The paintings are : Here in the quiet hills, Beloved it is morn and ...