I write regularly about my creative process and inspiration on Substack. I also post regular updates about my current work, where I have been, and what I have been doing.

A cyanotype of ferns

Summer Experiments with Cyanotype

Creating art with one of the earliest forms of photography

Operation Nightwatch be carried out on Rembrandt's famous painting at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Gogh

Just follow the crowds in the Rijksmuseum...

Italian Deruta Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate From the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

A Few of My Favourite Things From the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Part 1 - The less predictable pieces - Italian ceramics, Dutch art, and a Hindu god

Koromebi Early Morning Sunlight Filtering Through Trees at Conishead Priory, Ulverston Cumbria. A post about the Wim Wenders film Perfect Days

Perfect Days and the Beauty of Sunlight Through Trees

Komorebi, the Japanese philosophy of finding joy in the ordinary...木漏れ日

A painting of the Lake District fell Skiddaw by Cumbria artist Sheila Fell. Skiddaw Summer, 1963.

Sheila Fell - Painting the Dark Side of Cumbria

A brief introduction to the work of one of Britain's finest (and underappreciated) landscape painters.