New book – ‘Poetic Woods: Experimental watercolour and collage’

 Published by Batsford on September 14th 2023 Available to order at :   https://amzn.to/41RaW6O Excerpt from back Jacket: ‘Through tangled copse and mysterious thicket, to glorious autumn leaves and dazzling summer glades, discover how to capture the secrets of the...

Our Magical Garden

Our Magical Garden Our garden is a nature reserve and is kept just this side of wildness.  I am still uncovering small stone walls and steps, peeling back years of ivy to make discoveries, even though we have lived here for over two years. The seasonal flowering of...

Award-winning painting

Ann was awarded the Megan Fitzoliver prize at the recent Royal Institute of Watercolours exhibition at the Mall Galleries  in London for her  work ‘Gorse’. The artwork  was created  with water-based mixed media and  included the dried prickles from the gorse bush it...

Creativity through Nature – May 13th. 2021

What a year this has been!  I do hope you have all weathered the storm and found solace in art and nature.  It has been an eventful year for me and because of this there has not been chance to write more frequent blog entries. During the first ‘lockdowns’ I was...

I’ve Moved House!

Finally .. We have moved house and relocated to the wilds of Devon near the river and sea. The house is tucked away down narrow lanes dripping with ferns and hopefully studded with primroses in the Spring. The garden is full of ponds and trees, camellias and...