Christmas is on its way and there is an air of excitement everywhere. A sense of hurrying to buy the thoughtful gifts and everything else associated with this crazy, mad, beautiful, hectic - what shall we buy for Aunty/Uncle, Mum/Dad etc time of the year. Two years ago I added to my hectic Christmas preparations by beginning a book illustrating the well known song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' which can test the memory to the ultimate, try remembering which number goes with
1st August already, and am getting very excited about my exhibition at St Simon and St Jude's Church in Winterborne Monkton Dorset from 11-13th August, it's a beautiful old English church in a very pretty Dorset village completely accessible by the main road from Weymouth to Dorchester or vice versa. There will be cakes, teas and coffees available. The other great news is that www.explorersagainstextinction have accepted three of my pieces for their online auction which start
I am currently working on several images for Sketch for Survival I would love to be able to put them all here but once I have completed them they will then go to The Real World Conservation Trust who will exhibit them and hopefully they will raise loads of money for endangered African wildlife and yes I do know that I am usually a predominantly British wildlife artist but sometimes it makes a change to work on subjects with which I am not familiar and it makes me feel great t