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Sunday, December 14, 2025

Travel Sketches - lovely house near Cromwell

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We rented a lovely house on a small vineyard near Cromwell. It was gorgeous, so much space for just the two of us. And a wonderful garden. I...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Travel sketches - Lake Tekapo and Lake Hawea

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Some days, I sketched more than others. I didn't sketch at all the day we went to Mount Cook. I would have needed a lot more time than w...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Travel sketches - Akaroa

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Next stage of our trip - Akaroa - lovely town, could have sketched all the beautiful old and new houses, but sketched the hills and sea inst...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Travel sketches - Travel and Christchurch

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So much to talk about, and yet I can't find the words. New Zealand was amazing. Loved waking up every day to birdsong. My favourite bein...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Pencils4tea 13 November 2025

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It was extra fun to have Suhita and Nina posing for this session of Pencils4tea! And Kirsty too of course!
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Softly softly

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I've been painting rocks, stones and mountains for the last few months. But now, of course, I feel the pull of water vapour, clouds, wav...
Monday, December 08, 2025

Dublin Sketchers Christmas party

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 Dublin Sketchers Christmas party. Not sure I can blame the jetlag.
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Stone - close-up

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From a close-up photo of a stone with lichen and what I believe are veins of quartz. I think it's those white veins that make the mounta...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Adding gouache on top of mulberry paper

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This is an ongoing experiment in layering with watercolour, gouache and collage, plus some oil pastel. How far can I go to recover something...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Crop and collage?

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I get too attached. Even on-location scribbles that I was planning to cut up and collage. In the end, I liked some of them too much. So ende...
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