This is a photo of a wall made from a collection of large stones with trees behind it and a gravelly path in front of it. The stones are a variety of soft colours with ivy growing over the left hand side of the wall. There are green weeds growing on the path. I took this photo when we were walking back from having enjoyed lunch at the Boatside Inn at Warden towards Hexham in Northumberland where we are spending a few days. The river Tyne is behind the wall and the railway embankment is in front of it.

I do love a well made wall. I took this photo on the way back from lunch at the Boatside Inn at Warden while walking back to Hexham, Northumberland yesterday where we are staying for a few days. The river Tyne is behind the wall and the railway embankment is in front. #northumberland #countrywalks

This is a watercolour painting of a wall in an archeology site in Mexico which I drew on location and painted when I got home. I exaggerated the colours which are a combination of blues and pinks. This is a reproduction of the image which I sell as a greetings card. The image has a white border around it and it is standing on a wall in our garden on a sunny day. It is available for sale on my Ko-fi site, the link for this is in my bio.

The original painting is acrylic on paper and is of a teepee in the garden supporting sweetpeas which are my favourite flowers partly because of their scent. The teepee is brown and the leaves are green. There is a wall in the background painted brown and there is an intense yellow painted over the entire thing. This image has been reproduced as a greetings card and has a white border. It is photographed on a wall in our garden in bright sunshine. It is available for sale on my Ko-fi site, the link to this is in my bio.

The original painting was my view from my sitting room window when I used to live in Brixton in south London. It is a partial view of two Victorian houses with a gap between them with a view of a church spire in the distance. The architecture is typical of houses built in London in the mid 19th century. The painting is in acrylic on paper. It has been reproduced as a greetings card with a white border around it. It is photographed on our garden wall in bright sunshine. It is available for sale on my Ko-fi site, the link for which is in my bio.

The original painting was produced in a single session using acrylic on paper. It's called the 'weir by the bridge' and the location is by the river Wey in Tilford near Farnham. It has been reproduced as a greetings card with a white border around the edge. It was photographed at the site I painted it and can be bought at my Ko-fi site, the link for which is in my bio.

Here are four paintings I have made over the years which I have reproduced as greetings cards. They can be bought from my Ko-fi site, the link for which is in my bio. #art #greetingscards #paintings

We visited Winchester Cathedral recently to see the Helios installation and I remember gazing at the vaulted ceiling then.

Same here. 🙂

Thank you.

This is a landscape looking into green hills in the distance. There is foliage in the foreground with greens, blues and shades of reddish brown. There are splodges of mauve on the horizon and the sky is shades of blues with white and grey clouds. This was my view from our room at my in-laws home in Hawick in the Scottish Borders made on 05/07/21 in a small sketchbook.

This was my view from the window in Hawick in the Scottish Borders on 05/07/21. Watercolour and fine liner pen on cartridge paper. #art #sketchbook #watercolour

Thanks for your observations. They were very interesting.

Thank you. I'm glad you like them so please go right ahead.

This is a sketch I made at Woodberry Wetlands nature reserve in London during Covid on 26/07/21. It was such a treat to be able to travel slightly further away from home than we'd been allowed to during lockdown. This is a view of hedges surrounding the reservoir using mostly greens and browns with a blue sky above. In the background I have sketched in pen the outline of two tower blocks that are visible from the nature reserve.

A visit to Woodberry Wetlands nature reserve, London on 26/07/21. Watercolour and fine liner pen on cartridge paper in a small sketchbook. #art #watercolour #sketchbook

Thank you.

Thanks for your comment. In my experience a sketchbook becomes interesting when you just fill the pages one by one and then months later you flick through them and you go 'well, these look interesting '. 🙂

Looking at it again the fine pen work would have been Staedtler pigment liner.

I think this was watercolour but I'm not sure since I did it back in 2021. Glad you like it.

Thank you.

Oh wow!

This is a sketch of the river Tyne as seen from Corbridge which is a small town in Northumberland close to Hadrian's Wall. The bottom half of the sketch is a watery reflection of the scene above and the colours are mostly a variety of greens with the odd splash of brown. I did this on 03/07/21.

A view of the river Tyne, Corbridge in Northumberland. 03/07/21. Watercolour on cartridge paper in a small sketchbook. #art #sketchbook #water

This is a view of Helios, which is orange and yellow and lit from inside, suspended over the nave of Winchester Cathedral with the ceiling above it and the floor below. It was made by Luke Jerram and is a 3d printed version of the sun at a scale of 1:200 million.

This is a closer view of Helios from below with the elaborate ceiling above. There are some of the arches behind it. Helios is cropped on the right hand side.

This is Helios seen through the roof screen that divides the nave from the choir and altar.

We're enjoying a visit to Winchester in the UK to see Helios, the touring artwork by Luke Jerram, of the sun which is on display at the cathedral until the end of the month. #art #installation #helios

This is a square watercolour sketch of a building behind Corbridge train station. It depicts a modern building which could either be an office block or a small block of flats, I couldn't decide which it was. The colours are not true to life but gives an idea of its blocky appearance. We were waiting for a train to Newcastle and had an hour to wait and concentrating on this view took my mind off the cold and the wind. I made this at the end of November last year.

I made this sketch quickly while waiting for the train to Newcastle from Corbridge station at the end of November last year. It was cold and we had an hour to wait so concentrating on this took my mind off the weather. #sketchbook #watercolour

This landscape watercolour sketch is the last in this series and unlike the others I painted directly in the book which created a more watery impression. This was apt as it depicts the Old Curling Ponds at Etterick and was our destination on Boxing Day.

Unlike the previous three sketches I worked in watercolour paint directly in the sketchbook which produced a more watery result. This was apt as it was a view of the Old Curling Ponds at Etterick on Boxing Day. #sketchbook #watercolour

We went out on Christmas Day and stopped near this view of fence posts, barbed wire and a gate set against a backdrop of fields receding into the distance. I drew the sketch in pencil quickly and painted it using watercolour when we got home. The fields and small trees are mostly green with the fence posts in the foreground in browns.

Following the sketches from the previous day I made this one, on Christmas Day, of fence posts, barbed wire and a gate with a backdrop of fields in the distance near Wellagate Brae. #sketchbook #watercolour

This landscape sketch is a follow on from the previous one made at Monteviot and covers two pages of a sketchbook with a wire binding up the middle. I was concentrating on the stump of a tree that had been felled surrounded by rotting vegetation. The tree stump is dark grey and the focal point of the left hand page with shades of green, grey and yellows for the vegetation covering the remaining space. I used watercolour when we got home as it was too cold to work outside for long.

Following the previous sketch at Monteviot I quickly sketched a tree stump that had been felled surrounded by rotting vegetation. #sketchbook #watercolour #freshair

This is a landscape sketch drawn in pencil on cartridge paper made when visiting Monteviot, a rural estate near Hawick in the Scottish borders, on a dog walk over the Christmas holidays. I worked it up in watercolour when we got back home. The colours are blue and tones of brown and grey for the windswept sky and browns and greens for the trees and grass.

Sketch made in Monteviot near Hawick in the Scottish borders during a Christmas visit. Drawn in pencil on cartridge paper and painted in watercolour when safely back indoors. #sketchbook #watercolour #freshair

My husband does just the same but at night instead of the morning. 💖

Why do you want to be a ghost?

This is a view of the Pavilion café by the lake in Victoria Park, east London at Twilight.

The Pavilion in Victoria Park at twilight.

I am very pleased that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has lost his titles and privileges. I'm not so happy that he's going to continue living a life of luxury at Sandringham. I suggest he undertakes community service in Norfolk every week as payback to the British public. #royalty #community

I enjoyed a walk in the rain this Sunday afternoon and stopped briefly to look at this landscape view of grey sky, trees in their autumn colours and the green grass.

I enjoyed a walk in the rain around Victoria Park this afternoon and stopped for a moment to enjoy this view. #rainywalks #autumninlondon #londonparks

This is an acrylic painting on a canvas eight x 10 inches in size. It shows three yellow lemons grouped together on a napkin the colour of red mixed with ocre which in turn is lying on a black slate. It will be displayed in a white tray frame and shown in an exhibition called 'home is where the heart is.'

This is an acrylic painting on an eight x 10 inch canvas produced surprisingly quickly for me who usually plods along. 😄 It will be displayed in a white tray frame and shown in an exhibition called 'home is where the heart is.' #stilllife #acrylicpainting #lemons

Wow!

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.