Sunday, 23,April,2023 | Blog
The latest illustrated posters in my collection are of Epping Forest in Essex, Richmond Park in west London, and Clovelly in Devon. Clovelly, north Devon I remember going to Clovelly during a childhood holiday to Devon and Cornwall. It is a perfect – almost...
Sunday, 20,December,2020 | Blog
A while ago I decided to create a linocut of an eccentric and rather “unloved” looking building in Brighton – the Western Pavilion. This building was created as a domestic dwelling in the style of the famous Royal Pavilion, but has been bashed about...
Wednesday, 21,October,2020 | Blog
Walking in Brighton a year or so ago, I saw an intriguing building that was like a mini Royal Pavilion. I returned recently to take a closer look, with a view to creating a linocut of it. The Royal Pavilion’s “baby brother” It’s called the...
Sunday, 21,September,2025 | Blog
After pottering about the West Country and then along the south coast, in my bid to create new illustrated maps of every British county, I decided on a complete change of scene. Time to whizz off to Scotland and visit the Orkneys (if only in my imagination). So far, I...
Thursday, 3,April,2025 | Blog
So I finally turned to doing the illustrated map of East Sussex, the county I actually live in (and nothing to do with a couple of ex-Royals in America). Whilst looking over the landmarks to include, I discovered that some I was considering were actually across the...
Thursday, 20,February,2025 | Blog
I’ve left the West Country and headed east for the next in my series of illustrated maps. Time to produce an illustrated map of Kent! Canterbury Cathedral outline I know Kent reasonably well. It is only a few miles from my house to the Kent border. I frequently...
Wednesday, 15,January,2025 | Blog
I really enjoy illustrating and designing my new county maps. I hope to gradually work my way around the country, but naturally started with the county I knew best, Somerset, where I grew up. Radiating out from there, I’ve now got to the glorious county of...
Tuesday, 1,October,2024 | Blog
Finally had time to continue with this linocut of the Mendips Raceway stock car racing circuit up in the Mendip hills in Somerset. I finished the fourth and final block – the light colour to be used on the track itself. I hadn’t decided the actual colour...
Friday, 30,August,2024 | Blog
The latest linocut print currently in progress is inspired by the Mendips Raceway stock car racing circuit in Somerset. I re-visited it for the first time in decades recently, and it hasn’t changed a bit! I started out with this rough sketch. Carving the key...
Monday, 26,August,2024 | Blog
While I was back in Somerset recently, I went to the stock car races at Mendips Raceway – which is now the inspiration for my latest linocut. I hadn’t been there since childhood. We used to go there occasionally on summer weekends. If you’ve never...
Sunday, 28,July,2024 | Blog
Had a lovely walk down the hill into Hastings Old Town this morning, combining a trip to the artisan baker in the sunshine with a quick bit of sketching on the beach. Went among the fishing boats and spent a happy half hour with cheap sketchpad and thick black...
Sunday, 30,June,2024 | Blog
I recently started sketching local architecture with a set of black marker pens, as posted here. So, back in Hastings, I have tried to continue with a bit of this – though sometimes rained off! Here are the recent efforts … Hastings Old Town Here’s...
Sunday, 2,June,2024 | Blog
I recently had a long weekend back in my home town in Somerset and on a free afternoon decided to do some sketching. I decided that the tiny A6 sketchpad I had brought away with me on the train was too pathetically small to be much use, so I wandered into town and...
Saturday, 2,March,2024 | Blog
`As described previously,` I was inspired by a visit to the Eden Project in Cornwall last summer to create a linocut or two about this amazing spot. I decided to use two blocks – a key block in black (or other dark colour) that defines the entire image –...
Thursday, 29,February,2024 | Blog
I went to the Eden Project in Cornwall for the first time last summer and, not surprisingly, it has inspired some linocut ideas – as have some of the other gardens I visited in Cornwall. The first Eden Project linocut is now in progress. The first glimpse of the...
