I’ve been out on adventures this week, around the garden, through the fields, into the woods and to the sea. Whilst exploring, I’ve discovered nature before me that made its way back, in my hand, tucked on my hat and rustling in my pockets as I wander along. What a collection to treasure, I feel…
Category: Sketching
The World of Colour
It’s an exciting time as I prepare for my first Photographic Exhibition in a Gallery. Annie at Made in the Marches Gallery has provided me this exciting opportunity. It’s amazing what can happen when you go for a walk into town. For a while now I have been trying to find the best way to…
Creativity Outdoors
It feels like a totally different experience when you pack up your art materials and take them outdoors. You are off on an adventure and unless you have a something in mind, you create things you discover on your walk or the view before you. I create mixed media sketches on my walks. Using watercolours,…
Painting Plein Air
Yesterday I was excited to be heading outside in the sunshine to sketch in the landscape, to feel the sun on my face and sketch what I see in front of me. I’m capturing the landscapes in my local area. These are the hills I see on my travels and I know their names. I…
Nature Inspired
As the ferns are uncurling, this is the time of year which I love the most. Everything awakening, a festival of colour in every direction you walk. I’ve been making the most of the sunshine, sketching in the landscape. Whilst on my walk I discovered these beautiful Early Purple Orchids, amongst Bluebells, Primroses and a…
Sketching in the Brecon Beacons
Pen-Y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons Into the mountains I went, to stretch my legs, connect with nature and sketch what I could see. I was graced by the beautiful weather and on the first evening I heard the curlews calling me. They take me back to an ancient time, it feels like a sound from…
Lion’s Tooth
I’ve been settling into a new job in the tree world and this is why I’ve been quiet. With bursts of sunshine peeping through those grey clouds, I was itching to get out for a wander with my sketchbook and paints to take in the gardens’ display of rainbow colours before me. It was the…
Small Adventures…
A little budding artist joined me on my walk today. As we wandered across the fields and spotted little things along the way, I was then asked, ‘ Are we going to draw now?’ Eager to start, we found a spot on the trunk of a fallen ash tree. ‘What shall we draw?’ he said. How…
Nature’s Time…
On my wander today spring was in the air. The lambs were racing each other along the banks and I discovered my first wood anemones. They were tucked up in an old hedge making the most of the sunshine. Hello they said as they caught my eye, pulling me closer to inspect their fine…
Sketching & LandArt
Just as my Moon Boots thought their time was up for another year, they were on and we were out ready to create, whatever the weather. The vibrant sulphur- yellow of the Witch Hazel caught my eye against the snow as I wandered by. I could feel their excitement as I took the time to…
The Walking Sketchbook 