Created for Art in the Gardens in Stackpole, & now ready for soldering. Available from the exhibition should you wish to own such a bit of hand painted stained glass? I will also be opening my studio by appointment through August if you would like to see my paintings in person

Tthe fleeting season of wild strawberries will come to an end very soon. I pick bunches of mint,sage,thyme and lemon verbena to dry for winter. I swear the bay trees flinch as I approach them secreters in hand. It’s okay I say you’re evergreen and I prefer your leaves fresh 💚

Something I’m working on right now. Trying to capture the fragility I see watching my mother sleep as she has been in bed now for over a year. It’s very much a work in progress but it means a lot to me

Something I’m working on right now. Trying to capture the fragility I see watching my mother sleep as she has been in bed now for over a year. It’s very much a work in progress but it means a lot to me

I’ve lived in my house for a decade now. Back from a week away caring for my mother I sit at the round dining table that has always been in the same spot. Today I noticed for the first time a heart shaped indentation right under the middle of it , in the lime putty mending a cracked slate flagstone.

Listening to Shrink Solves Murder, by Philippa Perry (it’s very good) when three teenage magpies come into the kitchen to see what mischief they can get up to

Everybody is coming to say hello today. The three magpies and the two squirrels have got to know me this week . I’m sure if I stay another week they will be moving in for good

Adam has avocado for lunch

Mother sleeping this morning. Drawing her as she drifts in and out of sleep. So peaceful, so thin, so quiet, feels like a privilege. Not everyone is lucky enough to get the long goodbye

With the heat comes the first casualty of the day. A cabbage white butterfly

Trying to keep cool and getting to know the locals at my mother’s house

Managed to start work on this miniature blackbird commission today between dealing with caring duties, shopping for mother and trying to get to grips with a hoist. Just the average day for a female artist

I just made a paddling pool out of a soup plate for a frog that came into the kitchen to get out of the heat

Everyone’s having a Nana nap this afternoon. The ancient one is in bed after a wash and brush up. I cut her hair and she’s looking fab. Im now ensconced in her lazy boy chair enjoying a breeze from the garden feet up drinking an ice cold lemonade ahhhhhhhhhhhhh 🩷

Away in Sussex doing a week of caring for the ancient mother, so no posts from the studio or The Farm but instead here’s Adam the tortoise eating a cherry with great relish, in the garden at yesterday’s family get together for Father’s Day. Get in there Adam 🩷

Keeping cool under a massive hat today

Happy solstice everyone

I frequently get asked if I ship to America, yes I do! There are no tariffs on original art at present. Things can change rapidly at the moment, it’s a time of change. Art can be there every day giving you joy & comfort. Buy art if you can afford to and help support a starving artist 😂

Saturday morning, and there is a blackbird singing in the apple tree just outside my studio. I’m choosing frames for a client to choose from for a blackbird commission so it feels just a little bit perfect.

Oh Beauty I Am Undone A Triptych (detail here) painted on a beautiful vintage trifold panel with 23 carat gold leaf. Available now, contact me for dimensions and price etc. shipping worldwide

Just in case I missed something! Bryn eats venison casserole his favourite. Not a drop shall be missed, even the bay leaves were licked clean

When I look at the trees that live here on my land, that have been here for hundreds of years before I was born, I realise one never really owns a tree. I am just their custodian for now. They are what remains of our once great temperate rainforest

Memories and thoughts that come while picking strawberries in my garden

Someone is resting on the garden wall, gathering a little heat from the giant lump of coal I put there for exactly this purpose. Just look at his delicate toes and the beautiful patterns of his lizard skin. Perfect little creature minding his own business and making my ten step to work commute a joy

It’s been a busy day in the veg garden gathering hazel rods and whips to build a bean frame and then finding alternative ways to protect the seedlings from hungry slugs and snails

Today’s task is to harvest hazel poles and build a support for the climbing French beans. Then get those beans in. If there’s any time left plant hundreds of leek seedlings. It’s a busy time of year in the veg garden

Working on a new member of the collection of crosses for the “we must stop crucifying nature “ series. This one is about old fashioned meadows and field mice. There are hardly any meadows left that can sustain these little creatures and that, let’s face it is really rather sad.

Saturday has come around again, like an unexpected old friend with a great bottle of wine and a big smile. Where did that week go? Why does time speed up sometimes and slow down others?

Saturday has come around again, like an unexpected old friend with a great bottle of wine and a big smile. Where did that week go? Why does time speed up sometimes and slow down others?

Finally I have a kitchen companion

Results

Washing wild strawberries for tiny pots of strawberry jam

Soft light falls on a collection of my work hanging on random nails on my studio wall. This collection of crosses are unique to my practice. I wonder how long it will take before someone copies my concept? My next exhibition will be “ we must stop crucifying nature “

Terribly sad to hear that David Hockney has died. I have loved his work ever since I was a student decades ago. I have a piece of his that hangs over my cooker and look at it every day. What a brilliant man he was

It’s very cold for June and the sky is gray. To warm me up my fog Bryn has brought me a pair of alpaca socks that he is now eating on my lap. Well that’s one way to keep warm

A good day in the studio working on my latest icon for the next exhibition. Two more days should be enough to complete it fingers crossed

A good day in the studio working on my latest icon for the next exhibition. Two more days should be enough to complete it fingers crossed

Down on the farm, don’t know why I’m feeling blue, so it’s time for a sing a long with Bryn the Welsh terrier to lift the mood

It’s so good to be back in the studio this morning painting a goldfinch and roses. Caught in a moment for ever.

The first two jars of wild strawberry and rose petal jam have been made and the house smells delicious

It’s so good to be back in the studio this morning painting a goldfinch and roses. Caught in a moment for ever.

Good morning from a sunny west Wales & the sage patch in the veg garden where a busy Hummingbird Hawk moth had its lunch yesterday. Moths matter & providing them with the right habitat & plants to forage on is a pleasure, especially when these fellows grace one with a visit. Blink and you’ll miss it

The last few days have been spent coppicing willow and hazel to weave a raised edge to a vegetable bed. Learning as we go I think not a bad effort for a first attempt.

Hold the front page!!!! Not only has Stumpy the lizard survived and his tail regrown but here he is with his heavily pregnant partner on the garden wall

My father died when he was only 65, 30 years on I still miss him. He would have loved this place. It’s woods and field; it’s hidden places. I turned my back on the city after he died. Moving to a simpler life in the country had its ups and downs but it gave me more time to do things I love, and

Somehow it’s Saturday again! Wishing everyone a brilliant weekend! This icon is available now, dm me for details should you be interested

Highlights of today Making a willow wreath. Picking wild strawberries in the kitchen garden Starting the first batch of elderflower champagne

Finally got a bumper crop of redcurrants!!! I can die happy now 😂

What would you do with 300 grams of wild strawberries? Last year I made jam in tiny pots and gave it to friends and family