This is the kind of subject which evokes the romantic English Summer Idyll. Country folk working in the  fields or more likely today a cou...

Trevor Chamberlain is probably best known for his watercolours mostly done out of doors. There is another side to his artistic creativity ...

Woodcuts are a form of block printing where the raised surfaces of the block receive the ink to be printed on paper. Usually only two or thr...

Our holiday at Aldeburgh last summer coincided with an exhibition of watercolours and prints by Robert Greenhalf SWLA in a local gallery....

I've made some changes to the group of Oystercatchers in the first picture.  The original arrangement of the birds divided them in...

This is another old watercolour which has been restretched after having had the ‘bathtub treatment’.   It was painted on a half-sheet ...

This is a recovery of one of my ‘Possibles’ It is a watercolour I did several  years ago after a visit to Arnside on Morecambe Bay.  I tri...

I read somewhere that Edward Seago instructed his executors to destroy 30% of the work left in his studio after he died. I’m not anticip...

This painting of a Stonechat was one of the first serious bird paintings I did over 10 years ago. Quite why I never continued exploring ...

Tidiness was never my strong point so I've been putting my studio store cupboard in order. One aspect of tidiness I am meticulous about ...

I rarely post to Artists Forums these days though I occasionally drop by some of the ones I once visited regularly.   Mostly they’re j...

This painting started on a visit to the Farne Islands off the Northumbrian coast. It’s a well managed nature reserve and the cliffs ...

I think the most difficult problem with painting a group of birds is to place them in a convincing composition. During the cold weather of...

Prof. Brian Cox' TV programmes have stimulated a lot of interest in Stargazing. A Facebook friend is showing a photograph of the Plaeide...

This is another digital study taken further by the inclusion of a coloured background. I began with a ‘pen’ drawing on a white ‘canvas’. F...

Seeing David Hockney last week-end sketching with what looked like an iPad has motivated me to try some digital techniques again. I encoun...

I’ve always had a soft spot for David Hockney even though I’m not a keen fan of his paintings. There’s no doubting his talent though he ...