Bird of the Day: Oystercatcher

I painted an Oystercatcher very early on in my gouache journey when using the white paper as the white part…

Bird of the Day: Black-headed Gull

My favourite book as I was growing up was Usborne’s The Naturetrail Omnibus, and I pored over the different chapters…

I am fortunate to live in an area where a number of Peregrines are resident. I’m not sure how far…

When my children were younger, we used to visit the RSPB Reserve at Pulborough Brooks, and the WWT Centre at…

Waxwings are on my Ultimate Ticklist…I may weep if I actually saw one, and that goes double if I have…

Gulls are quite difficult to paint in my style as they have a lot of white, so I bought some…

I have enjoyed the Linocuts, although my results with the actual prints have been rather variable. I really love using…

I was chatting to a friend of mine who mentioned her daughter’s friend’s mum (!) was a nurse at our…

I don’t get a great variety not birds in my garden – just the usual suspects of robins, blue tits,…

I really enjoyed doing my chicken linocut, and I had in my mind a thought to do a more landscape…