I am never more content than when I am painting, and it has been such a relief over the past few days to get stuck into another project. I’m now into the second piece based upon my recent visit to the Bradgate Country Park, in Leicestershire, involving ancient trees. This afternoon, however, I was given … Read more
I was sitting by the window of our living room this afternoon enjoying an afternoon cup of tea. The sun was beginning to set and there was a warm light over everything. Right outside the window stands a large Japanese maple, which at this time of the year is showing to the maximum its autumn … Read more
As I feared, we didn’t manage to establish an internet connection from the small cottage in which we were spending our holiday on the isle of Anglesey. Back in Yorkshire, however, I am trying to re-establish something like the pattern of “normal life”. We have passed a very congenial week on the outskirts of the … Read more
Although I have done a certain amount of reading about colour since I took up art seriously, I don’t think that I had a sound a grasp of it until I went on the ikon-painting course at Mirfield, last week. Of course, I was aware of the origins of the “earth colours” in natural soils, … Read more