“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy.” – ALBERT CAMUS I mentioned before how 2 years ago I took on a part-time job, and how it quickly turned…

I have a new video up on my Youtube channel. I take a tiny pocket sketchbook everywhere and draw everything that catches my eye, from a windy churchyard and a hospital waiting room, to my local riverside. This tiny sketchbook…

As I sit here in my sofa nest at the end of January still recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis, I have a chance to reflect on 2024. It was a year that held up a mirror and made…

It all began on 7th November 2023. For the past 365 days I have written in a diary. And I’m not talking about just a few scribbles here and there, I stuck to it every single day for a whole…

After a very long time (I’m talking years) I’d been mulling over cyanotype again. More specifically, river cyanotype. Something I’d been experimenting with, and with varying degrees of success around 2018-20. I also finally redecorated my bedroom. I had a…

Last month marked 20 years since leaving England and starting a new life in France, with 3 young children and Arthur the dog. No savings, no work, no long term plan. The children are now all grown up and I’m…

{I realise that all these first posts involve me talking about the lake, so I’m not going to mention it again or else I’ll seem a bit obsessed with it (ok maybe I am just a little bit 😃)} Instead…

I’d been swimming every summer in the lake with the kids when they were young, but I can remember clearly the day it became something that changed my life. On the morning of 9 August 2019, I woke up wanting…

This post has nothing really to do with art, except it does indirectly, because it highlights why I work so sporadically. In August 2021 I was diagnosed with ADHD. How I got to find out in my mid-50s that I’d…