Celtic knot drawn on cotton paper. Watercolour amethyst background, red, green and yellow detailing.

Completed the #celticknot with some lovely vibrant water mixes similar to medieval texts.

Celtic knot drawing on cotton paper with genuine amethyst stone watercolour as background colour. Paper is sized against a pen cap. Paper is on an old heavily grained dark wood table.

Using genuine amethyst watercolour on this 5x5 inch Celtic knot 🪢 design.
Thinking to myself how wonderfully Sparkly the amethyst is in the sunshine.

Under painting for an octopus in acrylic white on unbleached fabric.

Started painting an octopus today. I had so much fun deciding where the tentacles should go 🐙

I‘m not using any reference material so the shape could be completely wrong lol 😂 but I’m happy 😊

C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice.

(Worth reading? ✅️)

Watercolour painting in progress. Swimming otter with Celtic knot design across the body.

This is what’s going on in the studio today. I’ve got to the point where I have to pause and decide if I’ve finished it yet… or if there’s something more to do. Digestion time is so important. If I do any more today I know I will lose it. Nice bit of colour granulation in the fur.

The winter Olympics we actually want to watch.

Workbook a few weeks ago. I experienced a bit of a problem with trying out alcohol based pens. The colour bled through the paper. Really relaxing to work through creating these #celticknot patterns. Time consuming when you add the colouring up too. Many hours but totally hooked.

City bench with beautiful white horse design structure for legs and backrest.

Saw this beautiful bench on my city wander. Kinda speaks Celtic to me…

The plait, trying out red and gold and adding some edging. Gouache paints straight out of the tube. #celticknot

Knotwork with a 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 squares showing design in white on gold.

So you don’t have to have just the one cord running through the design. Here are some examples of working through designs that end up with multiple cords or paths. I find these very soothing. #celticknot

Celtic knots using 8x6 squares showing the use of long and short curves. Gold background and white lines trimmed with black lines.

Celtic knot journey: curves. Love that you can follow the interwoven curves all the way around and end up back to the beginning without a break. Gold and white. #celticknot

Exercise book dotted pages with workings out of Celtic lattice design in white and gold

Another page of my project book this time exploring the lattice. Experimenting with colour and where to put pattern breaks. Developing my book with introducing a lovely gold background with white lattice. #celticart #trraditionalart #artsky #medievalsky #celticknots #knotwork

Note book exercise for Celtic knotwork showing construction and final design. Long curve

Taking a little time to work out the geometry of Celtic knotwork - this project came about because I picked up a book in a charity shop. 📚📖structure of knotwork and the final pattern using long curve

Loving the way you have used the indigo - Bravo! x

A wet bank holiday morning. Even the pup is taking it easy

Close up of unfurling apple blossom and leaves covered with little beads of water from the rain

Heavy spring showers here today but gentle enough to allow for pausing to enjoy the flowers. Delightful apple blossoms and rain drops.

This is pear blossom.

Four small curtains work in progress on the lining with recycled old school fabric. In the background are some bench cushions being reshaped and dressed.

Happy Friday! What are damp bank holidays for but to catch up on mini projects. These are the last four cut down curtains laid out on the rug and being reshaped with lining added. It’s going well up until when the lab plants her big paws on the work.

Pine trees with a night sky full of stars

Trees 'sleep' at night 😴🌲

In 2016 researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary pointed laser scanners at two birch trees, one in Austria & one in Finland. Between two hours after sunset and just before sunrise, the trees branches drooped by as much as 10cm🌳

Beautiful work ❤️ could you please share what paper you use for this? It has an adorable timeless quality.

Hawthorn branch with flower buds and open flowers. Purple bluebells in the background.

A sunny Sunday walk through fields around Hanbury Worcs was a delight with hedges bursting into flower. Lovely intoxicating scents of the May Blossom.

Oak tree in a hedgerow coming to life with the Spring

Incredible that this oak tree still lives as it looks like it only has the bark left. Perhaps it got struck by lightning.

Springtime!

Our roads no place for SUVs

European Transport Safety Council found that in a collision between a modest-size SUV (1,600kg) and a lighter car (1,300kg), the risk of fatal injury decreases by 50% for the occupants of the heavier car but INCREASES by almost 80% for the occupants of the lighter car.