I woke up this morning reading the news and feeling a bit like, to misquote Churchill, that the lights are starting to go out. And then I...

The common reed The common reed, or phragmites, are a real feature of parts of Grimsby that still retain the wetlands that were once part...

Wolf moon rising This was the full moon rising to give the darkness a little bit of glittery sparkle. This moon is known as a Wolf Moon...

Epiphany skies I used to dread January. The greyness. The dark. The Monday-morningness of it all. Then a few years ago I starting...

It's coming to the season's end at my chalet on the Fitties, the place closes up for winter on January 3 and doesn't reopen until March....

From 14-19 October 2024 my illustrated work from my CreateNEL-funded project, Wheels Through Time, is on at the Albert Room in...

Lovely day yesterday with a special group of ladies enjoying an autumnal art journaling workshop down at the Fitties on a beautiful...

I've been trying something very new in the last couple of weeks. I was asked to paint a mural on a school in Grimsby as part of the Paint...

I hosted an autumn themed journaling session at my chalet at the end of September. We went to the (very windy) beach to collect some...

Dates are available for the House with the Blue Door, it's just a few minutes from the beach and is decorated with my artwork inspired by...

As part of my #dycp funded year, I've been doing an online course with UAL about book illustration. This week's project was inspired by...

Join in Heritage Week celebrations by coming along to the Humberston Fitties and enjoying a stroll around the site to do some...

My chalet on the Humberston Fitties is filled with my artwork of the area, and dates originally from 1932. This table and chair set is...

Thanks to a Develop Your Creative Practice grant this year I've been able to learn new techniques and try new things. One of which was to...

As part of the Fishing Heritage Centre's Hometown Heroes' celebration of North East Lincolnshire's sporting heroes I was asked to paint a...

Mr Blue Door and I have been down at the House with the Blue Door inbetween summer rentals to do some work on the old place. It was built...

In July I worked with Coritani Creative on their Fuelled sessions to put on art workshops with an environment theme. I opted to use...

Since the autumn of 2023 I've been involved with a big project aiming to raise awareness of the Grim and Havelock story and what it means...

This is volume 78 of my illustrated journals, I started this odyssey 8 years ago, and I had no clue at the time that I'd be using this...

For the last few months I've been working on a community project in Grimsby called Warrior Women of the Marshes. It was a joint effort of...