Lunchtime climbing in the sun. Did a few problems including this one, my favourite at Shipley Glen. But if I’m honest I mostly basked in the light ☀️ #climbing

Wharfedale morning.

Sketching Eagle Crag up Langstrath. #lakedistrict #borrowdale #art

Pastel sketch of Fleetwith Pike, reflections on Buttermere. #lakedistrict #pastel

The beloved photographer kept both beauty and injustice in the frame. buff.ly/t9MjMep

Oil paintings and dry pastel paintings. I’ve been in a pastel kind of mood for over a year now. While I’m sure the urge to spread and mix oils with my pallet knife will return at some stage, right now I’m getting my fingers caked in multi-coloured pastel dust from all the sketching and blending.

Books. 📚 Both reading and writing. As I’m getting close to a final draft of my new book, I’m finding myself reflecting as I complete the concluding chapters. #amreading #amwriting #AI #intuition #art #mountains

At the Pools of Dee. #cairngorms

A quick visit to the Lakes with Alanna and an evening climb of Helm Crag. It’s 17 years to the day since I did the Bob Graham Round. Memories of a long, hot, beautiful day up and around the fells. So awesome to be be back remembering and making new memories 🙂 #lakedistrict

‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District. www.ukclimbing.com/articles/lit...

A beautiful extract from AC member @heatherdawe.bsky.social's newest book 'Dreams of Lost Buttresses'. Well worth a read.

‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District. www.ukclimbing.com/articles/lit...

Pastel sketch of Sasso Lungo in the Dolomites. #dolomites #pastels

I’ve not painted for a looong time. Very early days for this one but I’m loving it already, even the beginning frustrations caused by nerves and impatience. I need to wait for it to dry a bit… #ampainting #workinprogress

The mountain is out. I didn’t know it before I came to Seattle but for a lot of the time you don’t see the mountains from the city. One of my friends told me a volcano appears from time to time on the horizon, always dependent on the cloud and haze.

Slow time in the forest. #bluebells

Definitely late forties now… cake as baked by my lovely daughter and there’s not much left 😋 #cake

Spotted in the Keswick Bookshop. #mountainliterature

More birch sketching. Lawrencefield from a couple of weeks ago. #pastels #birch

Helm Crag.

Fine morning for a wander around Silver Howe and Easedale. #lakedistrict #grasmere

Last night’s walk on the Chevin.

A henna tattoo of a lizard on my forearm by my niece. It’s giving me ideas… I always said I’d only get one tattoo (and I got that when I was 19). 🦎 #henna #lizard

Work in progress - Blea Tarn and moody Langdale Pikes beyond. #workinprogress #langdale #pastels

Trees and light. A pastel sketch from last summer. #pastels #art #trees

Someone's got the UK edition! (It's out in the US, UK, and Spain in May, with wildly different covers in each.)

Early bike ride into Leeds and the London train. Had to stop to look at the view :) #wharfedale

A pastel sketch of Cìr Mhór and Goatfell from a bright evening on Arran a couple of years ago. #Arran #art #pastels

‘What’s the most challenging thing about working in AI?’ I was interviewed by the BBC on a theme of the proportion of women working in AI development and why we need to change it. This proportion is currently 22%. Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s keep pushing!

Rocket science

Wharfedale morning.

I went looking for land skeins at sunrise and found some. This place is so beautiful, feeling so inspired to paint and write. #sunrise #andalucia

Caught some light this evening. #ElChorro

Climbing at Serena. #elchorro #climbing

I was interviewed by Diginomica. We spoke about AI bias, the ways you can make AI ethical and why responsible AI and AI innovation are not mutually exclusive (despite some implying otherwise). diginomica.com/ai-innovatio... #AI

Quick pastel sketch, mostly done en plein air earlier today. #pleinair #sketching #pastels #andalucia

Another beautiful day in Andalucia. #andalucia #spring

There’s a spell - a few minutes in the evening - when the light turns these wonderful glowing colours. Tonight I legged it up the hill, under the crag to the ridge to be met by this. I am rapidly falling in love with this place, paintings everywhere I look. #sunset #andalucia #elchorro #light

View from the crag. #andalucia #climbing #elchorro

Just finished this pastel sketch of birch and winter light. I saw these trees when I was just south of Doncaster on the train to London a couple of weeks ago. The train was going slow and I took a few photos to work from. Don’t forget to look up :) #pastels #birch #light

New book. I couldn’t really resist given the title, it’s proving to be very mountainy. #amreading #mountains

Sketching birch in winter light. #pastels

View from the train. Heading north this time. #sunrise

I’ve worked out that the time to come to Euston Wall is 6:30 in the morning. I walked past last night and it was rammed so I went for a pizza. Who knew? 🙂 #climbing

‘I was told books don’t sell here.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

At World Woman Davos on a panel discussing AI and ethics. #wef2025 #worldwomanDavos #ai #aiethics

Bouldering at the Big Depot. #climbing

Fog over Zurich, looking to the mountains.

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