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Winter Sun And Thawing Snow, Watercolour. I remember snowdrifts up to 10 feet deep. One April I filmed the local farmers digging out five feet of snow that had filled in the only route out of the village. I loved it and I hated it, living up there 1000 feet above sea level. I could see for 40 miles from my studio window, but that was often 40 miles of rain. When the nice weather arrived it was heaven on earth, but most of the time it was damp. Our house was on the edge of the

Beyond The Ruins, Watercolour on paper now available as a fine art print. The route here lies on a line from Colne and Lancashire in one direction and Haworth and the Bronte Moors in another. It was a freezing cold day, but a sunny one, and I was out looking for subject material to paint and exploring the ruins of Sunny Bank. One of my favourite places is out in the hills above Hebden Bridge, a market town set deep in the Calder Valley of West Yorkshire. Hebden Bridge is a ha

This is a typical example of how I achieve my compositions. The radar is always switched on for combinations of design elements, such as ...