Another wonderful year of Cornish inspiration. Our much needed family time by the coast felt particularly sweet this year. The weather stayed fine and any serious cloud blew through within a couple of hours. Perfect conditions for airing the sketchbook and dusting off the travel brushes. Normally i’m lucky if […]
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A torturous title 😆. It can be difficult to get across just how much preparation and construction goes into an artwork. Especially the bigger canvas compositions, which can be quite the jigsaw puzzle! I like to think that it’s one of the things I’m quite good at… creating plausible scenes […]
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Following on from my Northumberland postcard (featuring a sketch of Lindisfarne Castle)… this new digital sketch was inspired by a story from a local family. They described to me the most atmospheric hike I could imagine, scaling the slopes of Mt Fuji at Night. Their tale of the lights bobbing […]
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Our 2nd family trip of a rather packed Summer! Having travelled as far South as possible (see our annual pilgrimage to the West Country) we then dragged the children North to experience a ‘proper’ British coastal holiday. Welcome to the North Sea kids! A grand adventure it was too; with […]
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Last week I escaped to the West country for a much needed Kernow inspiration break. Opportunities to travel have been so limited recently, so the chance to visit one or favourite UK spots was VERY welcome. I took the kids and they spent pretty much the entire time on the […]
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