Lindisfarne - always beautiful, whatever time of the year you visit. Even on a dull day in March. An iconic view of the castle, with a han...

First gardening update of the year can be found here. You can see and read about 2014 on my gardening website   here.  

More fun with the 48 Weeks course by Donna Downey. This is week 45 and as usual I put my own spin on things. Can’t beleive I have almost fi...

Could be the name of a pub don’t you think? “The Shift & Kirtle" This is first view of some new work and not a corset in sight. We...

Have found myself getting into drawing and painting figures…..  Not something that ever appealed before, but suddenly it is. Abstract of c...

Went for a walk with DH around Alnwick castle.  Literally AROUND the castle.   Fans of Blackadder will recognise the shot…. For once my leg...

Taken from a class on the Life Book 2015 course. Leaves always end up as Paisleys…...  

Playing with layers, colours, doodling, drawing hares (again).

Was a good day for seeing the eclipse through the camera… just cloudy enough to knock back some of the light. I love that point when the bi...

During half term we took mums ashes and scattered them on the beach at Bamburgh as she had requested. It was always her favourite place to ...

Namaste Greetings from me to you. I shall try to be here on a regular basis from now on.  Its been too long a break again, too much going o...

  Harthope Valley, just up and over a hill from home….. heather burning, smoke and a bit of tweaking to give a lovely photo.   It made i...

Snow drops are looking gorgeous in the garden. We have a really good show this year. The Daffodils are just coming through too. Spring mus...

The Magical Feather

 "What lies below" was the prompt from the D ocumented Life Project 2015. I immediately thought of Hares - though I realise t...

The Beginning and the End.  Labrynth: An intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find ones way or reach an e...

Sketchbook Work - Dream We should all Dream. I think it’s important for the artistic soul.  

An Artist is an Explorer….. (Or as I said when I posted this on Facebook - An artist is...  underpaid, undervalued and fed up! - but I was ...