“Jean and the Smarties”

My apologies for two posts in one day! If I don’t do this now, I’ll never get this blog up … More

Rainy Rydal

The day was so persistently wet, and flat, and grey/white. I’ve kept the pencil for the most part very light … More

“Immortal Bowscale” from a swim 18/4/22 Bowscale Tarn is not particularly on the way up anything, and so it happens … More

Sunbow This picture is true, if not strictly accurate. Persistence of vision exists, and if poetic licence may permit me … More

Autumn has been a long time coming. I finally made it back to Cumbria, a place that I’ve visited most … More

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

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

This painting was from a photo I took of my friend Jackie in Grasmere in Cumbria, late last summer. Unlike … More

It was not winter, but a cold reluctant spring and feisty April weather (I have been slow to draw this … More

You can try pausing to admire the beautiful morning, the misty view as the lake snakes its glimmering way up … More