Hi again. I hope you’re off to a good start to the year. It’s been pretty rough weather here in Crail for quite a while.  Here’s the beach yesterday when I went for a walk, tide quite ‘out’ at the time but the sea still rough. Anyway, this is a quick follow up […]

Greetings of the season/s I hope you are well, having a meaningful festive period, and I hope my timing isn’t bad. One of those days where I embrace the reckless part of my personality and decided to paint in a spot where I knew the incoming tide would cut me off.  There was also […]

Hello, and I hope you’re well. What an ‘interesting’ place the wider world is these days. Hmmm. Although I can’t seem to stop it filling my mind to an unhealthy extent, I’ll steer clear of that in this post, don’t worry… But somehow I just have to acknowledge it first.  […]

Hello and as always I hope this finds you well. Into my third year of living in Crail, in the ‘East Neuk’ of Fife, Scotland, and during winter we had record seasonal rainfall and record number of storms for the area.  We even had a couple more which the Met Office were too embarrassed to […]

Hello, and I hope this finds you well. Delayed to the point of almost never happening, I’m glad to have at last compiled a new blog post.  Lots of painting trips throughout the year have come and gone, and with the end of Autumn we’ve had quite a long period of mostly […]

Dedham Hall course More recent plein airs Talking of a ‘haar’, we spent the best part of five days in one, I think it was.  That […]

Recent studio paintings Had a lovely refreshing walk one day in a gale, and took some photos which the one above was done from.  Below my vantage point there is Pittenweem tidal pool, where there were still some swimmers enjoying the moment. Just down the coast ten minutes from me is Kingsbarns beach, which […]

Painting Competition – All the entries and result! Thank you to all who entered my most recent painting challenge/competition. It sounds like you all enjoyed it which is the main thing and I hope you also found the exercise useful. Below are all the (sixteen) entries I received, in no particular order (if I’ve somehow […]

A bit late for Happy new year.  But here we are again! A slightly shorter post this time, but plenty to show here and some news.  Time flies and is definitely never ‘spare’.  I’ve done some paintings and some tuition and breathed some fresh air. For me, getting past the winter solstice is always […]

Hello again I hope you are well.  I’ve got a lot here this time to share with you.  It’s a long one, including: New 50 minute Youtube demo, new competition (win the original watercolour featured in the demo, plus all entrants get their painting featured in my blog with a ‘positive critique’) many recent […]