Recent Posts

• On Yer Byke!
• Art for Children – Dinomania!
• Freedom
• Would you go to a car mechanic if you had toothache?
• Talking Pictures
• Some Archetypes – A Painting Life…
• Decoding that thing – Art Speak
• 24th December – Warning! Christmas Tree Cracker Jokes!
• The Christmas Story (With Bees) – Adapted and Illustrated by Kirsten Harris
• Advent Calendar – 22nd December – Death of a Horse Tree
• The Snow Queen – Bee Your Own Magic
• Advent Calendar – 20th December – I Only Have Ice Fir Yule
• Advent Calendar – 19th December – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Bee!
• Advent Calendar – 18th December – Wee Bee Kings
• Advent Calendar – 17th December – The Language of Wolves
• Advent Calendar – 16th December – Ding Dong!
• Advent Calendar – 15th December – Baby Forests
• Advent Calendar – 14th December – Tree Lovers
• Advent Calendar – 13th December – We Tree Kings
• Advent Calendar – 12th December – The Happiness of Drinking Tea with a Friend
• Advent Calendar – 10th December – The Apple Guardian
• Advent Calendar – 9th December – The Clearing
• Advent Calendar – 8th December – ‘When You Change the Way You Look at Things…’
• Advent Calendar – 7th December – The Merlin Tree
• Advent Calendar – December 6th – It’s in the DNA!
• Advent Calendar- 4th December – The Woodpecker
• Advent Calendar – 5th December – Clyde Dryad
• Advent Calendar – 3rd December – This Too Shall Pass!
• Advent Calendar – 2nd December – The Return
• Advent Calendar – 11th December – The Embrace
• Advent Calendar – 1st December – Creating The Christmas Forest
• Romance of the Falls – A Weekend with Turner – part 2
• Romance of the Falls – A Weekend with Turner
• The Horse in Motion – After Muybridge
• Dusting my Whimsies!
• Confessions of a Terrible Alexander Technique Teacher!
• Painting for a Space – Sheildhill Castle
• Crucifixion – After Dali
• Jurassic Art Blip
• Breath
• To Earth We Return
• Tree Lovers – Will You Help me Plant Trees?
• Why Blog?
• The Last Tree On Earth
• Art of Positivity!
• Lanark’s Closes – Astronomy, Magic, Superstitions and Alchemical Brews
• Beware of Bull – Close Encounters with the Community Bull!
• Cobblers – More on Illustrating Lanark’s Closes
• Buns and Pies – More Waffle on Creating a Series of Illustrations
• Two Dogs, a Cat, Two Magpies and a Dandelion Clock – On Illustrating Lanark’s Closes
• Open Wide – More on Illustrating Lanark’s Medieval Closes
• Time Passages
• Spring – The March Hare
• Tao Te Ching – Twenty Two
• Tao Te Ching – Twenty One
• Tao Te Ching – Twenty
• Tao Te Ching – Nineteen
• Tao Te Ching – Eighteen
• Tao Te Ching – Seventeen
• Tao Te Ching – Sixteen
• Tao Te Ching – Fifteen
• Tao Te Ching – Fourteen
• Tao Te Ching – Thirteen
• Tao Te Ching – Twelve
• Tao Te Ching – Eleven
• Tao Te Ching – Ten
• Tao Te Ching – Nine
• Tao Te Ching – Eight
• Tao Te Ching – Seven
• Tao Te Ching – Six
• Tao Te Ching – Five
• Tao Te Ching – Four
• Tao Te Ching – Three
• Tao Te Ching – Two
• TAO TE CHING – A Journey
• Drawing – A Line Around Thoughts
• Mountain Art
• How to Fail as an Artist! 12 Fool Proof Steps to Failure!
• Ear Worm
• In Praise of Chickens
• The Girnin Dug
• 20-20 Vision – The Haggis Party – Profile of a Hill
• 20-20 Vision – Eye Level – Dogs
• 20 – 20 Vision – Get Back on Your Unicorn Gallery
• 20-20 Vision – My Top 20 Prints – Black and White
• 20-20 Vision – The Power of Cow
• On Tintock Tap
• A Closer Look – A Photo Document of Lanark’s Closes
• Painting ‘Too Big’ and ‘Too Small!’
• Ascension – On Exhibiting
• Allowing Hands
• A Local Ghost Story
• Bum to the Wind!
• Perspectives on Drawing
• Artist Seeks Flow!
• The Merlin Tree
• Is it True?
• The Fate of Paintings
• Horizontal and Vertical Directions
• Nineteen Corvids, Unicorns and The Tree of Life
• I Manifested a Castle!
• A Bit Medieval
• Going Backwards to Go Forwards!
• Walking into Ideas
• Messages from Dog
• Dog Blog – 2 – Sketching from Life
• Dog Blog 1! Lightning Sketches
• What next? Talking to the Sky and Setting an Intention.
• Should Paintings be Pleasing?
• Meeting of the Sky Gods
• Portraying Movement
• How to mess up your back and create pain whilst thoroughly enjoying yourself painting!
• The Journey
• Extinction Rebellious Art!
• Only Do the Good Ones!
• Contemplating the Earth Walk
• Opening to Angels
• Feel
• Four Winds Medicine Wheel
• The Happiness of Grass
• Heart in Hand – Destination Freedom
• No Room For Doubt!
• Prayer to my Horse
• The Perfect Circle – Lesson from Art History to Apply to Riding
• Disillusionment and Creativity
• In Our Hands
• Messages from Trees
• A Jar Full of Possibilities!
• The Wishing Horse
• What my horse drawings are about…
• How to Make a Dream Come True
• Lasting Impressions
• Reflections on Plagiarism, Stress, Tattoos & the Kindness of Strangers!
• Uncluttering My Sluttery!
• Letting Go of Blocks to the Creative Flow
• Wishing on Dandelion Clocks
• I Love Artists!
• The Path of a Painting
• A Conversation at the Picture Framers …
• Dandelion Oracle
• Withdrawn and I
• 28 Drawings Later – Drawing some conclusions, half way through
• On Tintock Tap – Symbolism in a Traditional Lanarkshire Rhyme
• Mad!? Part 2
• Framed for £100!
• How to Paint my Camouflage Style, for 5 Year Olds
• A Postcard from Lanark
• Have you ever thought about investing in a dream?
• Organising a Group Exhibition
• Art, Bamboo Glasses and a Foul Mouthed Pub Landlady
• ‘My Walls are Too Small!’
• My Colouring Book
• If you love art you will adore an open studio …
• Open Studio – Up Cycled Danishly
• Check out this Free Creativity E-Course Testemonial
• Free Creativity E – Course – Testemonial
• Disappointment, Destruction and Recreating
• Wonderful World
• Press Release – Romance of the Falls Exhibition
• Monkey at a Waterfall
• An Ashtray and the Inspiration behind Romance of the Falls Exhibition
• A Falling Romance – work in progress …
• A Walk in the Woods – Art Muscles and The Tree of Life
• What a Nun Taught Me
• The White Elephant and Treasure
• Punctuation and Painting
• Make Art Not War – Weapons of Mass Creation
• Artists Statement
• Writing a blog is better than talking to yourself!
• Looking Through Your Eyes
• Light Waves
• Solo
• Hope at Sea
• ‘Art and Anatomy’
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Energy Shifts
• The Moon Woke Me
• A Gentle Light
• Rain Showers at the Beach
• Rain
• Does lying on your back make you a better painter?
• How to do a Truly Terrible Painting and Have a Totally Terrific Time …
• The Field
• Form and the Formless
• Head Up, Head Down
• Waterfalls – Symbol of Abundance
• Diary of an Exhibition – Midsummer’s New Moon
• The Drama of Art
• ‘Be More Maisie!’
• Slow Cooked Art!
• Planting Seeds and Heavy Boots
• The Daily Ease Colouring Book – Dog Ease
• The Daily Ease Colouring Book – Alexander’s Story
• The Daily Ease – Colouring Book
• Spring Greens
• Waterfall
• Anti Art!
• The Field of Intention – What is it?
• Field of Intention
• Travelling the Seven Seas for £100
• Diary of an Exhibition – Arty Farty Party!
• Golden Firefly and Red Dots
• Collecting Treasures
• Cracked! Going Round in Circles – The Circle and The Dot
• Diary of an Exhibition – My Motivation and Intention
• Diary of an Exhibition – Sailor Tattoo Symbols
• Finding my ‘Fuck It’ by painting the sea
• Surviving Art School and Constructive Criticism