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...
Thursday, 7,September,2023 | Blog
Time to get started on my Winchelsea Beach linocut. Here is the process…. In my previous blog Winchelsea Beach – surprising South Coast hideaway I described my excitement at finally discovering the delights of Winchelsea Beach – a coastal village just down...
Sunday, 3,September,2023 | Blog
Winchelsea Beach is a small village on England’s south coast in East Sussex – about seven miles east of Hastings. Wild plants at Winchelsea Beach It is a sort of ground floor offshoot of the beautiful hilltop village of Winchelsea, which I have often...
Wednesday, 28,June,2023 | Blog
As discussed previously – Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic: part two – I have planned a new A4 size colour linocut featuring wild garlic and a wood mouse. This will be the first of a prospective series of linocuts celebrating the gorgeous spring wild flowers I...
Tuesday, 20,June,2023 | Blog
So I have a sketch to work from for my prospective new linocut Wood Mouse and Wild Garlic, which will be the first in a series of linocuts celebrating spring wild flowers. You can read the first part of this blog here. Choosing the linocut technique So how to do the...
Sunday, 18,June,2023 | Blog
The idea Down here in East Sussex, I do very much appreciate the beauties of spring. In particular the amazing wild flowers that appear between March and late May. My plan is to create a short series of linocuts celebrating these wild flowers – possibly with...
Saturday, 17,June,2023 | Blog
I very much enjoy watching the sequence of wild flowers unfolding in spring. Now that I’m out of London I see them on a daily basis, instead of making a special expedition. The snowdrops are first, of course. Snowdrops at Southease Church Even now I see them...
Sunday, 2,April,2023 | Blog
I grew up in Somerset and I’ve always been very fond of Exmoor. When I started to expand on my collection of illustrated posters to include favourite places as well as British theatres, I was keen to highlight some of Exmoor’s “best bits”....
Sunday, 26,March,2023 | Blog
After a series of posters of some of my favourite spots in the UK, I have returned to the world of theatre! The Fortune Theatre, Covent Garden, London, with The Woman in Black Recently, I was asked if I had a poster of the Fortune Theatre in London – long time...
Thursday, 5,January,2023 | Blog
My artistic efforts are at the moment divided between illustration and linocut printmaking. In the run up to Christmas, and during the holiday, I’ve been very industrious in producing new illustrations of places that inspire me around Britain. These are being...
Wednesday, 23,November,2022 | Blog
I’ve added some more theatrical Christmas or winter cards to my shop this year. Although printmaking with lino is my main thing, I do enjoy other forms of art as well. Two years ago, I started an Etsy shop with some cards featuring some of my linocut prints. I...
Wednesday, 22,June,2022 | Blog
Just over a week ago I went back to Somerset, where I grew up, to take part in the annual Mendip Challenge with an old friend. Thousands of people sign up for a sponsored walk of various lengths across the Mendip hills back to Uphill cricket ground on the outskirts of...
