Chalk Hill Blues – a card for Christmas
What with one thing and another this year I have been unable to produce a brand new 2011 Christmas card design for you. I know some of you have been sending my cards out for many years now and I don’t want to disappoint you, so I offer you a verdant and lively alternative! As [...]
Henning Mankell in Woodstock
Popular culture mostly passes me by. But the extraordinary publishing phenomenon of Scandinavian crime fiction has not. In our house it began when, quite by chance, we stumbled upon the BBC TV adaptation of Henning Mankell’s gloomy detective Kurt Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. We liked it so much we lapped up the Swedish films when [...]
Eynsham Morris dance for the May, 2011
Still in the spirit of the recent royal wedding, the Eynsham Morris gathered in the village square this morning to dance. I love it that my village has its own very active and much-loved morris side. They bring a colour and English folk flavour to the village which I enjoy and am very proud of. [...]
Forthcoming exhibition – a short film
My exhibition for Artweeks opens on Saturday 14 May at 12noon. More information about it here. To whet your appetite, here’s a little film about what I’m showing:
Chalk hill hares
Two of my favourite recurring themes have been swirling around my head and made their way onto paper again: brown hares and the Uffington white horse. White horse brown hare (pictured left) was a special commission that I made over the Christmas break. I enjoyed making it so much; I love the freedom of putting [...]
Eynsham winter weather report
The weather forecasters did warn us that central southern England might see some heavy snow today… and it came. When I woke this morning we’d had a light dusting overnight, but at 9am it started to snow heavily. It still is. I went out at lunchtime and took a few shots. Here’s Eynsham church looking [...]
Get your map in Stanton on Saturday
I will be in Stanton Harcourt Village Hall this Saturday, 6 November, from 12noon until 2pm selling maps of Stanton Harcourt, Woodstock and Eynsham, as well as cards and prints. I will be displaying the originals, too! I will be doing this again on Saturday 4 December, same time, same place. I will take my [...]
Maps – as seen on the BBC
News of my maps has made it to a very nice article on the BBC website. I also appeared in a short item on BBC TV Oxford News in the bulletins at 6.30pm and 10.30pm, which was fun. If you’d like a map, please visit my online shop, or simply email me.
Hand drawn maps of Oxfordshire villages
When I began sketching my first map in June, I never anticipated that just a few months later I would be publishing a triptych of hand drawn maps. First came the map of Eynsham. After I’d finished it , I wanted to do more, so I set my sights on nearby Stanton Harcourt. Again, this [...]
Map of Woodstock
I have been working on a map of Woodstock. After hours and hours of work it is finally finished. Woodstock’s history is very long and much of it is recorded history, thanks to royal connections. Trying to fit everything in has been hard work, but a lot of fun. Here it is. Click on the [...]
