Back in the early nineties I saw an exhibition of large abstract paintings by Sir Howard Hodgkin at The Hayward Gallery in London. I was taken by the way in which he used the frame as a continuation of the image by painting over it. Years later I was working on a...
Spending a couple of weeks at a luxury hotel in the Caribbean painting a mural sounds like a dream commission and in many ways it was. In 2017 I illustrated a nature guide for the EastWinds Hotel in St Lucia and when the owners decided to re vamp the entrance to the...
Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project SWLA Artists Residencies Wallasea island lies in the Thames Estuary to the south of Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. The RSPB have created a nature reserve from scratch on the site creating a new salt marsh and lagoon habitat in what...
In March 2017 I took part in a eleven day field trip to Israel and Jordan with over twenty brilliant international artists, writers and musicians. The purpose of the trip was to publicise the perilous state of the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth which is rapidly...
ROBERT GILLMOR SWLA OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO ART AND NATURE AWARD The Society of Wildlife Artists asked me to create an award for Robert Gillmor, which was a great honour. Way back in 1999 Robert presented me the British Birds ‘Bird illustrator of the year’ award...
In the first lockdown I took to setting off on cycle rides when it all got too much for me; a dose of fresh air and exercise invariably lifting the gloom. The spring of 2020 was exceptionally sunny and warm and I got into the habit of strapping a sketchbook onto the...
