Silver birch is my favourite tree and when I saw a piece of the bark on the ground in the woods as we walked to the port one day I ha...

  I took a stroll around my garden and gathered a few seed pods, I love the pale blue green of the poppies and the pink edges of the sy...

  In our part of the world one of the native wild flowers is the Navelwort, which starts growing it's round leaves with a navel in ...

  We've just spent a week in a log cabin in Surrey, England.  There was a pond on the site with several families of mallards who ca...

  It's always sad to come to the end of a sketchbook that's been with me for several months and this one in particular has beco...

  At last the weather has warmed up and we're able to walk down our favourite lanes without getting covered in mud!  The lavoir de ...

  The camellias are blooming all over Perros-Guirec at the moment and filling our lives with such wonderful colour.  These are in my ga...

  The narrow lanes around our home are full of colour now with huge clumps of primroses, stitchwort and fumitory, with the celandines a...

  The beaches on Tenerife are dark grey volcanic sand with large pebbles at the top and along the outcrops into the water.  In one area...

  I've got some wild paper colours in my new sketchbook and this raspberry pink is quite gorgeous. Don't you just love the cont...

  I'm still working on the January challenge on the Artist's Journal Workshop page on Facebook. The subject for day 28 was flag...

  I've been taking part in the January challenge over at AJW and here is one of my interpretations of the subject for day 16.  This...

We woke up to a beautiful frosty morning on the last day of 2014 and I was attracted to the actions of the horses in the field opposite...

  Our garden is full of wonderful autumn colours but they are mainly on the flowers rather than the trees.  The azaleas have started to...

  My sister-in-law in England has been looking out for mushrooms for me to draw and here's what she found yesterday, an amethyst de...

  It's been such a dry warm summer this year that the mushrooms around here are rather late appearing, although I did see a clump o...

  I've just spent a week or so in England visiting my daughters.  Justine, the eldest is a gifted gardener who grows some beautiful...

  The other day while walking in the woods I picked up this pure white egg and identified it as a Wood pigeon.  The birds must have bee...

  During our lunch in the garden a short while ago, I noticed this butterfly on the grass.  When I looked more closely I saw that it wa...

  We've just spent a week staying in a log cabin in England with my mother in law.  The site was set on the hills behind Hastings i...