New Zealand’s Fiordland has some wonderful locations. I took a boat excursion to Doubtful Sound. It was a day of heavy rain but that did...

I Had time to get back to the Lesser Blackbacks today. Most of the time was spent working on the birds. The feather patterns were intri...

I was determined to celebrate May 1 st by completing this painting of the Hawaian Geese. It was in danger of going off the boil beca...

Last year on the seafront at Ostend I encountered a small flock of 1 st . Winter Lesser Blackback Gulls. It was bitterly cold an...

In May last year my wife and I spent a day in Brussels while on holiday in Belgium and were surprised to Peregrines nesting in a tower o...

I’ve been working on the Nenes today.   I decided to use the ripples in the water to group the birds together . The birds were mostly...

The family librarian – that’s my daughter who works at Newman University College, Birmingham – has  persuaded me to become Kindle convert!...

These are some of the Nenes I photographed at Slimbridge. There were small groups tamely wandering around but I caught these three in a...

With the Easter exhibitions out of the way I’ve been back in drawing mode for the past few days.  I’m planning a series of watercolours ba...

I've been framing work today ready to hand in at the LAS Spring exhibition on Friday. I'm using a frame I had in stock from an ear...

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 ...