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Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all had an enjoyable festive season.  Today and next week, I wanted to feature how I created this year's Christmas card.  It is a combined linocut and collograph print of my little girl and terrier inspecting her stocking on Christmas morning. I wanted to go through how I produced this black linocut and... View more

I've written before about how your art work can record what is important to you in your life at that time - and handmade Christmas cards are no different.  Today, I want to share three cards I've made over a period of 10 years, and how each is an expression of love and crystallises what was happening in my life... View more

Writing about my parakeet drawing in last week's blog post set me thinking about other art I've created which was inspired by the birds I saw in the rainforests of Ecuador.  Without a doubt, the most impressive birds I saw were red macaws.  They are huge birds - extremely intelligent - and utterly beautiful.  The first macaws I encountered were... View more