I see my last blog was on 1st July, the long gap being the result of an all-action summer with little time for writing. In August I vis...

     As many of you will be aware, I love painting wild seas crashing on a rugged coast, but there is much to be said for the calmer moments...

     This summer marks 40 years of my writing articles for Leisure Painter  magazine, and the current issue (July 2021) contains an article ...

     Where I live we are blessed with countless streams and waterfalls tumbling down the hills and mountains, and I like nothing better than...

 One of the little subtleties I enjoy putting into my paintings is that of counter-change, sometimes simply to create a variation and someti...

     The onset of spring nearly always gives us all a sense of hopeful anticipation of more pleasing times to come, perhaps more so this yea...

     Amazingly, even during these periods of lockdown there is just not enough time to get everything done, and it's not just because I ...