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...
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...
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...
As I have mentioned before- we moved to a house in Devon in November 2020 that is a renovation project – the day before lockdown and here we are in lockdown again! However, government guidelines allow the builders to still come and work- and there is plenty of work to...
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...
Well – it’s Spring . The birds are singing furiously in my garden. The primroses and hellebores are flowering. The trees are in bud. The sun is shining in a cloudless blue sky.It is hard to imagine that unseen covid-19 clouds hang noiselessly around the...
