The arboretum glistens with raindrops. My first visit is shrouded with heavy rain. The downpour persist all day and so I find myself walking in silence through the park bearing witness to the emergence of a trillion awakening buds .January 31st  is all about promise .

New life is everywhere it peeks along nets of straggly bare branches , it graces the ground in carpets of skyward shoots , it sits dormant and eager for its day beneath sodden soil on a rainy Monday. That threat of the imminent explosion of colour to see off the harshness of winter has me excited , I am so glad I caught this...

Wow what an experience , what a place.

 La Gomera, is the second-smallest of the main islands in Spain’s Canary Island chain. What it lacks in size it far makes up for in earth colours for my palette .


This is an island of small village communities perched amongst craggy volcanic mountains. With abundant hillside terraces for crop growing and a vast and dense forest at higher altitudes known as Garajonay National Park. The climate here almost comes in two parts and it's fascinating.


 Alojera is our home for the next three weeks and it is strewn with lush palms and the glaucus hue of...

Cape Cornwall residency

Brisons Veor 29th July -12th August 2023 

We arrive at the Cape and it's much busier than the Hebridean island we left two weeks ago.

I like that though it's thriving a holiday hotspot for many and it almost seems a novelty to be back within this amount of company.

 I had thought we might be more cut off than this but as it happens we are within walking distance of St Just , which has pubs , cafe's and shops , the National Trust carpark just above the cove sells ice creams too. Again ,after our usual forty minute commute to any shop, this all ticks all the boxes  ,...

Our first day took us right down to Rodel , South Harris from where we travelled east along the Golden road and back to Horgabost on the west coast for the night. I was looking forward to taking roads we had not yet travelled and i was not disappointed . In contrast to the vast sands and open spaces on the west coast the eastside gave us  low lying rocky outcrops ,tidal inlets and bays , sheltered by the minch and with an outlookout across the water to the Isle of Skye , the landscape offered something new around every turn but it was the shape of the rocks on the west side coast when we...

The last few days have called for a weather intermission , we have been incredibly lucky so far but it has become very chilly and a little wet  just now so the last few locations of the tour are on hold until we get a good day again,  but iv'e taken to the studio to examine all my finds  and yes ... iv'e made some paint . 

I am completely delighted and somewhat overwhelmed by the variety of colours i have collected from around the island , i never imagined this would be the case because of the amount of extremly hard granite and quartz we have here but the edges of our coastline are...