From May 2011 Monday Afternoon It’s very windy. From my usual vantage point as I sit at the uppermost level of the lighthouse, the south westerly is blowing though the brass vents as it has for one hundred years and swirls round in this inner space once trapped inside. There’s a lot of noise as […]

From October 2010 8.20am It is a beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. A bit of haze to the horizon but the cloud that so strongly featured in the sketches at sunrise has been burned out white now. I can feel the suns warmth on my face. Mmm. Particularly good because there is […]

From August 2010 Was up at 4am. A sunless sunrise! Painting Notes – Use pastels and oils. There are no ‘rules’. The important thing is that I manage to record what I see and with sunrises that means with speed.     Even with all the 18 colours laid out on my palette and I […]

I am the Artist In Residence for Spurn Point for the next 18 months! YES! Andy Gibson YWT warden has kindly extended the residency from a year to 18 months. Thankyou Andy! Due to a necessary ‘life quest’ I have to undertake which will distract me from my path to Spurn but I’ll be here […]