Welcome to my blog! This will be a place for me to share my plant- and wildlife-related thoughts, photos, drawings, paintings and...

The year is going by so quickly! Already seeds and fruits are appearing in my perpetual journal. Recording the plants I see each week in...

One of the things I have wanted to do ever since I started this drawing lark is to draw birds from life - to capture that moment in time,...

It's been a slow start to spring after an initially promising start. It's been cold lately with northerly winds holding up many of our...

My new home-made "Seasons" sketchbook is becoming a bit of an obsession! I have even made a second one, identical to the first but with...

I have so many sketchbooks on the go, what's two more! But what do you do if you can't find any sketchbooks on the market that contain...

Pen and ink drawings have always appealed to me. My paternal grandfather was an artist and pen and ink was his medium. His subject matter...

For some reason, as soon as autumn comes I just want to paint. Perhaps it's the colours or the drama of the changing seasons and the...

A couple of years ago a started to keep a nature journal/sketchbook. It was mainly a record of things I had seen when out and about and...

One of the best ways to learn about the natural world is to go out and look at it with someone who really knows their stuff. Last Friday,...

Apparently this week is National Insect Week, so here's an appropriately insecty post. The other day we went to Deeping Lakes nature...

Now the lockdown restrictions are easing a bit, our first trip out beyond the lanes around our house for two and half months felt...

For the last few years the Wildlife Trusts have been running a challenge to do something wild every day in June. I haven't signed up to...

I love dandelions. I love the sight in April of a grass verge or bank just covered with these little blobs of sunshine. A simple flower...

For the last two or three years I have been painting some of the British wildflowers I see when I’m out and about. We have a lovely...