International Women’s Day – Here’s to Strong Women

To celebrate International Women’s Day I am posting some of my favourite paintings, sketches and photos of women from my travels over the years.

I would also like to remember those women closest to me, my friends, sisters, daughters and mum, who without whom I would be nothing.

Here’s to strong women

May we know them

May we be them

May we raise them

MY Paintings and Sketches

Women carrying water from Pushkar Lake

Women selling fruit and flowers in Anjuna Market, Goa, India.

Market scene in Dar Es Salaam

Portrait of an Akha Hill Tribe Women from Northern Laos

Sketch of a road side market in Dar Es Salaam

Woman in Souk Cherifia, Marrakech from my Morocco Sketchbook.

Women in the market in Merida, Mexico.

Women selling fruit in Sucre – from my South America sketchbook.

Women selling fish at Anjuna market in Goa, India.

Women at the Friday market in Damascus – from my Syria sketchbook.

Market Day in Sucre, Bolivia

Window shopping at a cloth market in Hyderabad, India.

Sketch of Central Market in Mwanza from my Tanzanian sketchbook

Summer in the City in Havana, Cuba.

Sketch of people inside Kivukoni Fish Market in Dar Es Salaam from my Tanzanian sketchbook

Coming home from market in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Woman selling limes at a floating market in Bangkok, Thailand.

Four women going into the Rustem Pasha Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

Woman selling flowers in Anjuna market, Goa – from my India sketchbook.

Women selling bananas in Kisii, Kenya

Woman and baby in Muang Sing, Northern Laos.

Three Tanzanian Women on the way to market

Teenagers in a park in Damascus, Syria.

Selling fruit at the floating market in Bangkok, Thailand.

Woman and baby in Pakbeng, Laos from my Indo-China Sketchbook

Dadas at Kivokoni Fish Market

MY Photographs 

Women selling jewellery on Vagator Beach in Goa, India

Carnival day in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia

Sharing tea with Bedouin women in Petra in Jordan.

Women Washing on the Ghats in Banaras (Varanasi), India

Market sellers in Sucre, Bolivia.

Early morning rush at the market in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Two women buying bunches of flowers in Riga, Latvia

Early morning bargains at the Kivukoni Fish Market in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Relaxing on the street in Trinidad, Cuba

Flowers in their hair, Midsummer in Sweden

Young girls in Havana, Cuba.

In a queue in Havana, Cuba

Women walking in rural Morocco

Russian paratroopers celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War 2, with the help of a couple of Russian girls, in Moscow

Bolivian woman in La Paz

Folk singers wait their turn at Europeade the European Folk Festival in Riga, Latvia.

Bolivian baby enjoying an ice-cream in La Paz

Stone Town in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Girl in National Costume in Cuzco, Peru

Three little girls from Arwad Island, near Tartous, Syria.

Street scene in downtown Mombasa, Kenya

Folk singers wait their turn at Europeade the European Folk Festival in Riga, Latvia.

My female friends and family

The Davies Women, my sisters Lynne and Karol and my dear mum Vera

My best friend Carol Ann Lee with Anne Frank in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

My beautiful daughters Charlotte and Frida in Stockholm, Sweden

With my best friends, Tash, Clara and Nats in Norfolk, UK

With Faye at Palácio da Pena in Sintra, Portugal

My mum Vera with her two girls, the cats, Blakey and Pumpkin

Nats and Tash by the John Lennon Wall in Prague, Czech Republic

Lucy with her God-daughter Frida and Me.

The Davies Girls, Karol, Lynne, Ali and Vera (although one is now known as Dunnell) at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at the Sanderson Hotel in London

Ali and Cags waiting to see Morrissey in Manchester, England

With my best female friends and sisters at my wedding in Halifax, England