Early spring 2025
Grange over Sands – March A trip to the southern Lake District was favoured with a couple of days of sunny weather allowing me to […]
Read more2018 Christmas card
The walk from Grassington via Linton along the River Wharf in either direction is always worthwhile. I have many sketches and photos of this site. We […]
Read moreAskrigg – and about time!
This year I have managed to be so busy I have only just got around to posting about our early autumn break in the last […]
Read moreLakes, South West and Scilly
This year we managed to join up our regular trips to the Lakes, SW and Isles of Scilly, we were away for most of June, […]
Read moreBraithwaite – March 2018
Interesting week – we beat the weather (it snowed in Leeds, people in Spain appear to have had bad weather). In this week we had […]
Read moreStudio Work – November 2017
I have been working in the studio using photos and sketches made on autumn walks. Gannets at Bempton II Watercolour, A3 This was painted on […]
Read moreAskrigg 2017
An autumn trip to Askrigg has now become a regular event. The weather was mixed, sometimes too wet for using watercolour outside. However the three […]
Read moreA Year on Otley Chevin – Calendar 2018
Over the last 2 years I have been visiting Otley Chevin once a month making sketches and taking photographs. I have concentrated on a small […]
Read moreScilly – June 2017
Although the trip to the Isles of Scilly started in heat of 30°, the forecasts for our week on St Mary’s were consistently for cooler […]
Read moreLake District – June 2017
After last year’s week of unbroken sunshine near Devoke Water (SW) we knew it would be back to normal this year, and indeed it was. […]
Read moreDevon and Cornwall – April May 2017
This years first trip was to Devon and Cornwall, here is my painting experience (we did other things as well). Introducing the pictures I may […]
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