Waves and Gate Broken – in the studio

Waves and Gate Broken – in the studio

Juggling the studio as an addition to writing and photographing hotels for HotelDesigns, and at the same time making space for walks/fitness along the coast is proving a tough but enjoyable challenge. It means when I do get in the studio I tend to be very focussed as...
Of Wood, Waves and Walking

Of Wood, Waves and Walking

Going up to town from Seaford is relatively easy, letting the train take the strain, assuming there arte any running of course. There are Supposedly three direct trains a day though in this rapidly becoming a third world country they rarely appear. If they do the last...
Impressionism in Winter

Impressionism in Winter

I always used to hammer it into students that a sketch book was their personal idea library. Not a scrapbook, as so many lecturers allowed them instead, but a place in which you record manually your response to external stimuli, through using eyes and some form of...
Capturing the Colour and Movement of the Sea

Capturing the Colour and Movement of the Sea

The Impressionists went to the south of France for the light. English artists found their vision at home,  Constable in Suffolk, Turner in Sussex. Sussex is now my ‘home ground’ and the light  is startling in its clarity, cleansed by sea breezes and...
Practicing my Scales

Practicing my Scales

Musicians practice their scales hour after hour, and play practice pieces over and over again, seeking perfection. In my new studio I too am practising my scales – my colour sense is being subjected to physical testing, using different media to play games and...
Sixties London

Sixties London

The news that London is the most popular tourist destination on the globe will come as no surprise to Londoners. It comes as a  mixed blessing for those who have to endure never ending crowds of rubber-neckers, people carrying rucksacks larger than themselves on the...