It’s so lovely to feel the arrival of autumn. For me, this season makes the outdoors even more magical – there is always such a tangible sense of earth and change and connectedness to things.

In the first of my blog posts answering some of your questions about my artwork, I have picked out five that I get asked the most frequently:

We are nearly into May already and I suddenly realised that I haven’t updated my blog since December last year. The time has flown by.

I am delighted to feature in the February 2021 issue of The Artist magazine (published December 2020).

It’s been six months since my last update and whilst this has been an extremely challenging year, I have also really enjoyed the commissions I have been lucky enough to draw so far and all of the other artwork in between.

Delighted to have finished a new art tutorial covering basic techniques in graphite drawing.

Well it’s been a couple of months since I last posted and what a different place the world is now from back in February — we’ve all had a lot of adjustments to make.

In this blog post I take a look at wildlife portrait commissions and how they work.

It’s hugely important to me that having poured so many hours into a piece of artwork, and a massive amount of care and attention, that I see the whole process through to completion, which is why I choose to mount and frame my original artwork myself.

I’m delighted to launch the first two in a series of art tutorials.

The first tutorial focuses on the materials that I use to create a graphite drawing – discussing each of the various tools in turn.

Sitting at my desk on a glorious spring day has inspired me to look back over the last few months and take stock of my progress.

Sitting at my desk on a glorious spring day has inspired me to look back over the last few months and take stock of my progress.

Those of you who are familiar with my story will know that I’m the last person to consider myself talented with regards to art. So it has been somewhat of a surprise (although very nice of course) to have people along the way labelling me as such.

Have you ever thought about what goes into a piece of artwork? In this blog post I thought that I would give you an idea of the process that I go through and what has gone into my progress so far.

Unsure about buying wall art? In this blog post, I aim to address some of the commonly asked questions and concerns associated with purchasing this kind of artwork.

In this blog post, I thought I would take the opportunity to show you what I’ve been up to over the summer: those hot and heady days already seem a long time ago when I glance out of the window at the autumn leaves, scudding across the ground.

In this blog post I’m going to introduce the equipment that I use to produce my drawings. These have been refined after trial and error over time and I now pretty much stick to using the same ‘kit’ for all of my artwork.

I thought it might be fun to set up a blog page so that you can find out a bit more about me and my artwork, so here it is! For the first post I thought I would provide a bit of background about my art journey to date.