It all started with blackberries - in fact, it started with blackberries during a lockdown walk back in 2020... Something about this photo really stuck with me, blackberries carry such a sense of nostalgia from my childhood - blackberry picking, conker collecting, foraging for Christmas foliage - all a regular occurance when I was young. My Mum really is my true inspiration, we were always out collecting things and making things! Then a couple of years ago I spent a summer lo

I've got a freebie for you! Every year I like to do a bit of an activity advent with my boys, I always find the ones I see online are a little too ambitious for our family and lots of them have dates on them already so instead I made one that can be cut out and used in any order. I also made sure to include a lot of things that are the usual activities we (and you) might do over Christmas anyway. Click the button to download your copy and read below for a few ideas I had to m

The second part of my series of telling the story behind each piece of art - this one was originally called Fantasy. I called it Fantasy because it seemed like a bit of a dream world, somewhere that I would love to visit and set up camp for a while. We have always wanted to live out in the countryside amongst the trees and the wildflowers and this was almost like painting my dreams! I wanted to stick to the same colour palette as my first landscape and I think they work toget