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Hello, this weekend, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of November, you will find me at the Upland Made Fair at the Easterbook Hall in Dumfries. It's a great event which I'm really looking forward to. Come along and chat with artists, designers and makers ...

The inspiration behind my prints, card designs, poems and fabric designs come from my direct experiences in the field. I capture these experiences using my sketchbook and camera, so that when I am ready to start new designs I have research material ...

So many of my lovely customers have been asking if my lampshades are available to buy from my website. I have been hesitant to send my shades in the post, concerned that they wouldn't survive the journey well. But I have been doing lots of thinking ...

Save the date, for a bank holiday weekend filled to the brim with wonderful art in Dumfries and Galloway. There are 100 fabulous artists opening up their studios for the three days across the entire region, and I'm thrilled to be taking part again ...

I'm really looking forward to taking part in Upland Made again this year at Easterbrook Hall in Dumfries. It was lovely to see so many familiar faces at last year's event, to catch up with friends and make lots of new ones. I'll have all of my new ...

On Friday 29th April 2022 I opened my first shop on St Mary's Street in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway (located next to the Station House Cookery School). I feel I have been working up to this for a few years now and with the growing need for ...

It was great to have a stall at the first Upland CIC winter fair last weekend and wonderful to catch up with many lovely fellow artists and visitors during the two days. Thank you to everyone who stopped by my stall to say hello and to those who made ...

The studio has been a busy place lately as I've been working on designs for some new homeware products. I'll be taking these with me to the Easterbrook Hall on the 20th and 21st of November where I'll have a stall at the Upland Art Fair. A new tea ...

Not long to go now until my next exhibition! I was delighted to be invited to join a group show at the Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright, due to start on Sunday 26th September. I'll be showing work alongside, Lizzie Farey (willow), Jo Gallant ...

What's been happening in the studio this month? Not a lot! Instead, I've been distracted by my garden with the annual harvest of blackcurrants, making a new raised bed to house my snapdragons, planting broccoli, kale and sowing lots of flower and ...

Today is the start of my summer exhibition at Thomas Tosh in Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway. It's always lovely to see the folk at TT and get distracted by the many gorgeous things they stock in their shop. For this years exhibition I have produced ...

Thank you to everyone who called in to see the Spring Fling Pop Up venue at the Mill on the Fleet in Gatehouse and to those who purchased an item or two of my illustrated wares. A different event to the usual open studios format, due to Covid, and I ...

This year I will be participating in Dumfries and Galloway's annual open studios event, Spring Fling. Studios won't be open again this year, instead there will be largely an online offering, visit the Spring Fling website for all the details. I have ...

During the past few months I have been developing a fun mini series on YouTube called Draw along with Lucy. These are 10 - 20 minute drawing films focussing on the wonderful wildlife of the british isles. These fun sessions are not designed to teach ...

The studio has been a busy place lately with many projects on the go. One of those projects is developing designs for a spring time range of new homeware products. First to hit the 'shelves' will be this new bold and beautiful woodpecker tea towel ...

I'm delighted that North York Moors National Park is the latest stockist of my greetings cards! If you live near by you can now browse through a selection of my cards at the visitor centre.

my first picture book! 10 full colour and full texture double page spreads with words inspired by my experiences with nature. My new book is printed in the UK, using quality vegetable based inks on to uncoated paper from sustainable sources. They are ...

As well as focussing on my MA studies I am also slowly developing some new greeting card images. It's been a while since I released some new cards, so I'm working hard to create a little wildlife series and hope to have them available in a few weeks ...

Illustrated book I am now in the final module of my masters degree and I'm starting to work on the illustrations for a new body of work I've been developing for a number of months. The image here is a wee preview of one of the double page spreads ...

There are now two full weeks (Monday - Friday) of Drawing Birds with Lucy on my YouTube channel which I have enjoyed developing as part of my MA Creative Practice. Week one focusses on UK garden birds and week two UK sea birds. I will continue to ...