This is the story of the luckiest, most cock-sure cockerel that has ever lived – Bertie Wooster. We bought Bertie about a year ago. We named him Bertie, because my youngest daughter, Frida, has difficulties pronouncing the letter r and says wooster rather than rooster, hence Bertie Wooster. He soon had a lady friend which…
Category: painting
Dadas at the fish market
I’ve been painting this picture in my head for months now. The Kivukoni Fish Market in Dar Es Salaam is always busy. Both inside and outside the market walls there are scores of people; inside fishermen and traders huddle together around the many different catches of the day, outside house dadas dressed in brightly printed…
Swedish Summertime – and the living is easy
One of the things I learnt about Swedish people in the three years that I lived there, is that they really know how to celebrate and enjoy the summertime. In a country that is cold and dark for muc… Source: Swedish Summertime – and the living is easy
Buying and Selling Bananas in Kenya
This is my latest painting, a watercolour of a group of women buying and selling bananas and mangoes at a street-side market in Kisii, a town in south-west Kenya. The painting was done from a quick sketch I did some months ago while travelling from Mwanza in Tanzania to Nairobi.
Tanzania – First impressions
We have been here in Mwanza for about ten days now and despite the obligatory mosquito bites we are settling in well. The house we are living in is huge and my children have been enjoying running around the house and climbing trees. The garden is lush with colourful bougainvillea trees and hibiscus flowers and…
Every Day in May 2014 (part one).
Throughout May I have been taking part in an online art challenge to draw or paint a new picture everyday. Along with about 400 other artists from around the world I have been posting sketches of whatever the subject is that particular day on the facebook page Every Day in May. So far the topics…
Summer in the City
“Summer in the City” is my latest travel painting, this time of Havana in Cuba. I have tried to capture the bright vibrant colours of this city in the women’s clothing and set them against the once white washed buildings. The painting is A2 in acrylic and oil pastel.
The floating markets in Bangkok.
I am currently working on a painting, inspired by the floating markets of Bangkok. Here are some early sketches, in watercolour and in paint, which I will be using as inspiration for my final piece of work.
Snow Falling Soundlessly
Last week, when I thought winter in Sweden had long gone, there was an unexpected fall of snow. It came heavily and suddenly one night, submerging the yellow and purple crocus flowers which had already started to grow in the lawns and gardens. It really was rather magical. As inches of snow fell late into…
A wintery walk in Baldock with Vera and Baron.
Living overseas from my family, I often get a little, homesick… ok, ok, I often get terribly homesick. But I am not really sure what for – my mum, my sisters, my friends or perhaps just the familiarity of England. Well whatever the feeling is, or why I get it, looking at this painting gives…
A trip down memory lane, to Winking Willy’s, my favourite fish and chip shop in the entire world.
On my recent trip home to good old Blighty, I made a beeline for my favourite chippy, Winking Willy’s in sunny Scarborough. The chips were fantastic, but the seagulls have become much more aggressive since my last trip; with chip snaffling tactics now involving dive bombing customers and pecking at feet… who can blame them…
