I think we’re all in need of something creative to keep our mind off things just now, so I thought I would put all of my free colouring pages together in one post so they’re easy to find. I’ll add … Read More
I’m really pleased to announce that I finally have a shop hosted on my own website! You’ll find my original lino prints, greetings cards, my colouring book, stickers, colouring pages and stationery sets over there. As a welcome offer, please … Read More
I’m really pleased to announce that booking for my online Celtic knotwork drawing classes are now live! I have a selection of classes available from beginners to more advanced, a few samples of which are above. As I want to … Read More
If you’ve been following my blog / Instagram / Twitter for a while, then you’ll know that I always like to take part in the Twitter Art Exhibit each year. The project was originally set up 10 years ago by … Read More
This crab apple blossom has been a real delight in our garden over the past week. Often to be found housing a pair of nesting robins, whilst they wait for grubs to be turned over in the soil. As always, … Read More
You have to believe me when I say that these photos haven’t been altered at all – they came straight out of my phone camera like this! The combination of the beautiful sunshine and the vibrancy of the tulip makes … Read More
Over the past couple of months I’ve been working on creating a font from my Celtic knotwork alphabet – see the video below. I have a quick question for you – with such a decorative font would you prefer the … Read More
I’ve been doing a lot of pin loom weaving lately (more on that in a later post) and I’ve been on the look out for colours and textures to translate into woven fabric. These lovely monochrome stripes were found in … Read More
I love the way the frost picked out the rings of the tree. Found on a recent walk along our local ex-railway track trail. As always, you can download the colour swatch over at Adobe Color CC to use in … Read More
Huge thanks to @PaigntonPoet for his poem about my ‘Dragon Spiral’ artwork. As I wrote in this previous blog post, this piece has been donated to this year’s Twitter Art Exhibit to raise funds for Art in Healthcare. My piece … Read More
Here’s a little round up of my art in the wild! The first piece is a mail art piece for the short film, ‘Dear Eduardo‘. The film’s makers put out a mail art call for envelopes to be used in … Read More
A Memento Mori found in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh this weekend. If you like a bit of graveyard architecture (and graffiti!), then there’s more in the gallery at the bottom of this post. We were in Edinburgh to visit the … Read More
It’s 8th of May already and yet still extremely gloomy outside! So I thought a colouring download that could be coloured in lots of bright colours would be the order of the day. This illustration was originally hand drawn by … Read More
A fun abstract watercolour that I painted yesterday as a sample piece for tomorrow’s community art workshop. I don’t work with watercolour paints all that often as I prefer either watercolour pencils or acrylic paints, but I’m quite pleased with … Read More
Day 25 of #the100dayproject already! I’ve had so much fun experimenting with my Celtic knotwork over the past 3 and a bit weeks. Days 1 to 11 were spent creating a series of four different circular pieces based on the … Read More
My annual Forget-Me-Not post is here, which means spring has finally sprung up here on the hill! Fantastic! And this year they have seeded themselves in the allotment as well as the garden, which means double the amount of my … Read More
I love a Penfold postbox! The ornateness and form of them makes me very happy! You can find a list of the ones in the UK here. We have two in very close proximity, one in Beamish Museum and one … Read More
April’s free download is the result of the first couple of days of my #100daysofcelticknots project, and is a colouring page download of this 6-fold triquetra that I have drawn over the last three days. The final hand drawn version … Read More
As always, you can find this colour swatch over at Adobe Color CC to use in your Adobe programmes. Enjoy!