The Day we Dived off Portishead Pier

Up the coast from the beautiful Clevedon Pier – a regular feature of my drawings – is another pier. This … More

Water Sprite

In a day of much weather I walked up the steep path to Scales Tarn, which lies in the arms … More

Cool March Sea My first visit to Lyme Regis this year. I drove down in the morning through a light … More

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

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

All things are relative. While the prospect of an Autumnal temperature plummet to seven degrees may cause us to shudder … More

…But we think it’s much warmer. My thermometer claims it’s nearly 10.5. Winter swimmers will understand the difference. Once it … More

Another commission I was asked for – this is a digital drawing, like most of my swimming pictures. The commissions … More

On Wednesday the marine lake had dropped to 9.5 degrees. This is not an unpleasant temperature at which to swim … More

Suddenly we have reached that time of year when chance onlookers may express not mere surprise, but disbelief, as if … More