Paintings and printmaking

I spend lots of time juggling my lovely family, teaching commitments, seeing friends and doing chores, with doing, making and creating.  Now and again, I still find time to paint, and here are some of my favourites (detailed prints and abstract paintings).

Detailed intaglio print 

Love doing collagraph prints!

Collagraph detail

Mixed media sample

Drawing - let's keep it alive please!

I love my life as an artist and designer.  I get inspired by all sorts of weird and wonderful things and just want to go on exploring ideas forever!  After travelling, walking, talking and looking, my sketchbooks are the place where I deposit all those nuggets of ideas, and some will make their way into a new design or a painting, print or drawing.  I've put some of those pages together for you to see part of the journey from ideas to realisation.  Drawings first - hope you like them!

Sketchbook covers

Recognise this one?

original ink drawings

Springtime botanicals!

It's so lovely looking forward to spring, and the new snowdrops, crocus and even little lime green tips of daffodils that are peeping up outside my house are brightening up my days and inspiring new ideas.  I'm having to settle for tulips in vases for now but it won't be long before they are popping up too, like these from last year photographed at Sizergh Castle in the Lake District.

Botanic garden inspired designs bring a lovely, fresh and lively feel into the home, and birds, flora, fauna, insects and butterflies are my favourites!

Tulips in the rain

In the Wild design based on leaping pheasants, birds and grasses.

 I'm looking forward to getting my flight wallpaper up in my bathroom, and teaming it up with perhaps Little Greene Paint Company's Canton, which is a deep teal colour - bold I know!

Flight on a cool standard lamp.

Remember theses little lanterns I made at Christmas?  Well, they were very popular so I'm busy making some more!  Watch out for them soon on the website!