Around this time forty years ago, I graduated from art college. I had studied textile design at The Manchester School of Art and D...

From "An Illustrated Address Book" My garden is looking more like a jungle at the moment; every possible place is crammed wit...

A multitude of packages arriving on my doorstep recently, each one containing art materials. I decided it was high time to replenish m...

On Saturday we put the clocks forward, "Spring forward, fall back" is how we remember it. We have had a few days of spring suns...

Earlier in February we visited The John Rylands Library in Manchester to see The Tregaskis Collection- a unique collection of bea...

I have finished a new miniature painting, it measures three inches across. It was a joy to paint!

January proved to be a very difficult month, fraught with ill health, bereavement and ill fortune. I would never want to wish my life away...