Writing blogs on a steam-driven laptop is an extremely slow process, and with extremely poor internet connections it can take me hours, ...

    Some of you asked if I would show the full image of the promontory watercolour published on the post on 5th May, so here it is - the sce...

    Jenny and I have just returned from running a course on Exmoor where we had the luxury of sketching and painting inland scenes as well a...

    Our recent trip to Scotland and subsequent workload have alas, inhibited new blog posts, as so much seems to be happening at once. Jenny...

    Light is critical to our painting. Without it our subject is lost. On my recent trip to the Lake District I experienced many exciting ...

    One lovely technique in watercolour painting is to float two colours into each other and allow them to merge, sometimes adding more of o...

    I've just returned from a sketching trip to the English Lake District, having experienced a variety of weather conditions, making fo...