Happy (belated) New Year 2020

I am aware I should have done this drawing a month ago, January has been a bumpy one and as … More

Stepping into Single Figures… gingerly

(Brothers Water, Cumbria, 15/10/19) To be fair, I was stepping far more gingerly than Susan and Francine: they with shoes, … More

It was not warm in Derwentwater: not yet ‘Baltic’, but well into ‘quite nippy’. It was past sunset and Emma … More

To get to Clevedon I drive North on the M5, Lucy drives South, which can sometimes give one or other … More

I managed to finish an actual bigish painting (20.5 x 14.5 inches), which is a rarity at the moment. This … More

Compiling the pictures for the calendar for 2020, I have found one more drawing that got missed off this blog, … More

Inspired by the swims at the Henley Swim Festival 2019 This is a rare drawing for me – a swimming … More

I painted a few more of my occasional ‘Mini Swimmers’ lately, here is a selection of them. Several of these … More

We got to Ullswater on Saturday morning, in the wind and rain. Rosie and Francine were already swimming, right out … More

(with apologies to triathlon friends and Richard!) “I thought that was you”, Richard Smith said to me on Thursday afterwards. … More