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...
