Botanical Sketches and Other Stories

Every artist hits a creative slump once in a while.   You want to paint but you don’t know what to paint, or even where to start. Wh...

Getting Ready Phoenix dactylifera, believed to be Khesab variety   With my five SBA paintings finished, it was time to prepare the...

Sometimes inspiration is hard to find, and other times it literally lands on your doorstep. Such was the case a few weeks ago, when I fo...

I am bursting with excitement this week! I have just sent my papyrus painting off to the Gaiás Centre Museum in Galicia, Spain, whe...

I can almost hear the ticking of the looming deadline.  Yes, the Society of Botanical Artists submission day is fast approaching (17...

This week was Wicked .  That is to say, that whilst I painted this week, I listened to the audiobook of Wicked, the fantastic novel by...