These beautiful flowers, introduced into Europe from Mexico in 1789 and from Spain into England in 1803, were blooming in the formal...

There are plenty of these pretty pale pink flowers about still, growing close to the ground. I outlined the flowers in watercolour crayon...

I am planning to include seasonal flowers in next week's harvest collage, as well as root vegetables and apples.

We visited Quarry Bank Mill today, an industrial heritage site run by the National Trust. Yesterday's rain has raised the level of the...

In spite of heavy rain, eight members of the Friends of Lymm library craft group came to the library today, and five people stoppped to...

I always like to have a small sketchbook in my bag and at least one sketching pen - and a mobile phone is useful too, so that I can...

This lovely display was in the house where we stayed in Berupon Tweed. Sketched in pen and ink.

Lowry, famous for his matchstick-men paintings, used to holiday frequently in Berwick-upon-Tweed and as a result he made more than thirty...

We visited Cragside in Northumberland yesterday. The moorland around the house was transformed by Lord Armstrong between 1864 and 1900. ...

The latest incarnation of the tree - strangely toadstool like, with representations of autumn.