At this time of year we often see bats flying around outside the lounge window at twilight, the especially daring among them even sometimes ...

The Society of Feline Artists annual London Exhibition takes place at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery on the 3rd September to the 22nd Septe...

We had a fantastic holiday, Canada was stunning, Yellowstone and Mount Ranier wonderful and Hawaii fun. One of the best bits was meeting a c...

Sorry that I haven't been keeping my blog up to date, but I've been really busy. I had my first stall at a cat show which went reall...

I finally completed my squirrel and got her framed ready to meet the deadline for the last handing in day for the NEWA exhibition. NEWA is t...

I have been working on my squirrel and have almost finished her. There has been a lot of discussion recently about Graphitints and whether t...

Anyone living in the UK probably knows about the floods in Yorkshire, we have had so much rain I'm thinking of trading in my car for an ...

At the end of last week I attended Mike Sibley's 3 day graphite pencil technique workshop. Mike is well known worldwide for his graphite...

I seem to have been busy for the last few weeks and fast falling behind on everything. It is not helped by the stress in the household at pr...

I know, I know, you would expect a bath to be wet, but this was Bath with a capital B. We were showing Juno and Roxie at Bath Championship s...

I still haven't really tried out my new Derwent tinted charcoal pencils because I've started a new Norwegian Forest Cat portrait. I...

I got the horse finished at last and sent on its sea voyage. I was really pleased with how well the varnishing turned out. I used a silk rat...

Sorry I haven't been updating on a regular basis, life got in the way. I am going to try to update at least every other day with somethi...

I'm lucky enough to have a quite a large garden which is visited by a wide variety of animals and birds. We buy bird food by the sackful...

Well today my eldest son is 18, a milestone for both of us. To think of my baby boy (good job he doesn't read this) as being a young man...

I was showing the progress of my Meerkat to my cyber chums, and my friend and fellow artist Katherine Tyrell came up with this title "D...

I'm having a break from graphite, so my Meerkat is waiting in the wings. This is Rio at four months, just after the splint was removed f...

Every now and then I get cravings, in my case not for food, but for the humble pencil. I can just sit down with my pencil and start to creat...

It's true, Spring has arrived, the dogs are frolicking and I've fallen in love, with Ampersand Pastelbord. Ampersand have some very ...

As it's Mother's day here in the UK we took my mum out for lunch, and then went to her house so that my son could install her new pr...