I wrote a post a longtime ago on inspiration and where it comes from and what can you do when you are lost on something. I set off to paint a couple of watercolour sketches yesterday just to get the fingers and the brain going again and like everything in life sometimes it just doesn’t work out the way [...]

This was a painting commission for the guys at Eskdale Cricket club and a great lot of fun to do. Pictures a little skew-if but still looks ok…just I decided to keep it nice and loose and create an impression of Michael, the guy in the painting, as he was the president of the president of the club who sadly [...]

Rowland Hilder always used to say “Paint a sky a day”. That was one of the things I always tried to do when I had the gallery and living in the beautiful harbour town of Whitehaven it wasn’t that difficult.   I could wander out on to the harbour and at anytime of day the sky would [...]