After what seems like too long since I’ve had the opportunity to work on one of my own projects (client work and other fun explorations have been keeping me ‘otherwise engaged’) I&#...
soft wonderfully tactile mosses and lichens abound in the Ardennes woods linear geometric stained glass windows in the La Roche-en-Ardenne church a small (!) selection of Belgian beers chevrons pine ...
R.I.P Mr Sendak Thank you for your wonderful wild things!
Beautiful, ‘alien’ speleothems – draperies, flowstones, stalactites and stalagmites – 70 metres underground in the awesome Grottes de Hotton cave system (near Hotton, in the Belgian Arden...
early morning mist floats over the Ardennes hills From Limburg we headed further south, into the Belgian Ardennes and to higher ground. The woods here, and the hills that stretch as far as the eye ca...
Some colours, textures, shapes and patterns gathered while walking in the Limburg hills… russets stars & stripes weathered diagonals grids blues & greens lovely warm, glowing colours of...
If you live in the 13th-17th Century castle pictured below (and apparently somebody does!) near Epen, in the Netherlands’ southern-most province of Limburg, then the answer is very green indeed...
… for a long weekend? Whatever you’re up to I hope it’s a good one!
Will you be switching your lights off at 8.30 this evening for the WWF’s Earth Hour? Find out about the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour here, switch your lights off at 8.30pm (your local...
The shadow of November/December 2011′s calendar animal looks on in bewilderment as the end of March rolls around (note to self: leaving four month old calendars out on your desk does not make t...
I have been enjoying the subtlety, and gentle ‘silence’, of the winter sky at dusk… … an infinite variation of soft greys, cool and warm tones. But I’m ready for somethi...
I think the ongoing demise of the handwritten letter & the ‘snail mail’ posting of cards or notes to mark occasions (special or otherwise) is rather sad. A txt msg or email will never...
This winter in Amsterdam has, for the most part, been a fairly mild one (crocuses and daffs springing up along the canals in early January and other unseasonal happenings*). But when temperatures plu...
Soon after I had started work on the drawings for my ‘amateur naturalist’s specimen collection’ print series I was approached by Chômu Press about creating a book cover illustration for one of ...
With the drawing, printing and hand-colouring finally complete, these little (each one is ±9x9cm), colourful specimen screenprints are now available in my shop > I was glad to use this project as ...
If you’ve just arrived at this ‘Process, part III’ post but would like to start at the beginning you can find ‘Process, part I (drawing)’ here and ‘Process, part I...
If you’ve just arrived at this ‘Process, part II’ post but would like to start with ‘Process, part I (drawing)‘ you can find it here… Working in colour doesn’...
I have at last completed the new series of little screenprints (the largest is ±9x9cm) I’ve been working on, loosely entitled ‘An amateur naturalist’s specimen collection’ (th...
Last Sunday we made the ±hour and a half train journey from Amsterdam to Nijmegen, nestled close to the German border, for our first (of, hopefully, many!) gig of the year – Scout Niblett at Ex...
A few days ago I received a wonderful New Year gift in the post from my very talented friend Yoko – one of her minutely detailed and exquisitely coloured copperplate etchings, entitled ‘g...
Part II of street art ‘collected’ on a recent visit to Berlin. You can find Part I here > Osch (and CCTV surveillance courtesy of ‘the man’ ;) Interested in other ‘ad...
Astronaut/Cosmonaut by Victor Ash (and a giant bubble spotted floating over the Brandenburger Tor) Street art abounds in Berlin, and we came home from our recent visit with a lot of pictures of said ...
… as a certain dim-witted, but well-meaning, feline might say. Lots of both to all of you!
As I get older my wanderlust (an appropriately German word) doesn’t seem to be abating. And so, in celebration of a recent birthday, we packed our bags (again) and headed east. Here are some pi...
No wanderings in London’s South Kensington would be complete without a visit to the Natural History Museum… if only (when time is tight) to have a(nother) look at the dizzying array of pl...
I have just finished packaging up a big order of the ‘Panthera Pair’ cards I made a while ago, and while doing so I was reminded that I quite forgot to mention them here! So, here goes...
whassup? [precocious hyde park resident, london] It has been a very busy few weeks around here and as is usually the case when I’m juggling multiple projects ‘n things, I drop the blog-ba...
Gorgeous, glowing autumn colours at Zorgvlied Cemetery, on the Amstel River… When one is in need of a nature-fix but doesn’t have the time or opportunity to escape the city, urban cemeter...
Twilight, the ‘blue hour’, is arriving earlier and earlier these days. It’s a beautiful, painterly time of the day…
Was my previous post lacking the anticipated pre-Hallowe’en fright-factor (as, perhaps, promised by the title)? Let me make it up to you… Behold! The embellished facade of the zombie-ghos...
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