In the flow
I’m excited to see what happens..
Along the river, Kenidjack Valley
Three weeks after Solstice and a little further downstream I find this handsome river pool with a strong sense of the wild sea beyond and Cape Cornwall presiding over Porthledden Bay. I will take my drawings back to the studio and put brushes to canvas ..
Midsummer Love Song to Kenidjack
I sat with you, wild singing river of the valley, and felt the deep wonder of your presence and mine in this flowing place. I made watercolour drawings and took photos, then created this piece in my studio, as a song of love and gratitude for such an encounter in Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall.
Pure Motion
My first oil painting of the year. To flow with the purity of Nature is what I wish for all.
Jubilant release!
Summer kisses us with warmth and shows us the fertile future Nature prepares for us over and over. I love the translucent touch of watercolour to convey life’s fine veils of self-renewal everywhere around us.
Hedgerow exuberance!
Inspired by my recent week on St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly comes this glorious thrust, drip and tumble of oils on canvas! Zoom in close and you’ll find more surprises than I could have imagined. When paint and painter dance the dance of art and heart anything can happen…
Island Giants
These are one of the biggest surprises to me here on St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly. Elegant giants watching over small rectangular flower fields and crowning coastal headlands..
Hunkered down in Bracken and briars
This little painting, 60 x 60 cm, is taking shape from drawings I made in a hidden grove near Zennor, Cornwall, tucked away from almost everything yet connected by the elements to all that is ..
