Recent Posts

• 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
• Diary of an Exhibition – Love Guides Me Forward and Up!
• Diary of an Exhibition – Spring
• How to Create Movement in Paintings
• Diary of an Exhibition – I’m in Two Minds!
• Diary of an Exhibition – Size Matters
• Diary of an Exhibition – Painting, Stress and Death
• Diary of an Exhibition – Despite Myself I Paint the Sea
• Diary of an Exhibition – Love on the Beach!
• Diary of an Exhibition – Paint Over
• Diary of an Exhibition – Releasing Art Flow
• Diary of an Exhibition – Everyone Else is Taken
• Diary of an Exhibition – Not Good Enough for What?
• Diary of an Exhibition – Stealing Clouds
• Diary of an Exhibition – Abandoned
• Do It Now!
• Diary of an Exhibition – Let Go Make Art
• A.R.T. – The Sweet Spot of Creativity
• The Diary of an Exhibition – Listening to Seashells
• Diary of an Exhibition – The Joy of Stuff and Clutter
• Diary of an Exhibition – The Stories We Tell Ourselves
• Diary of an Exhibition – Dreams and Symbols
• Diary of an Exhibition – ‘Homeward Bound’ Sea Chest
• Diary of an Exhibition – Memory Box – Forget Me Not
• Mad!?
• Diary of an Exhibition – Sea Chest Restoration Project
• Diary of an Exhibition – Sea Chest
• LET GO MAKE ART – It’s Body Magic! – Free Creativity Course
• Diary of an Exhibition – A Line in the Sand
• Diary of an Exhibition – When you are Dead…
• Diary of an Exhibition – Ego Gets In The Way
• Diary of an Exhibition – Boundaries
• Diary of an Exhibition – Flow is a Wavy Line
• Diary of an Exhibition – Vapours, The Incident of the Mask!
• Diary of an Exhibition – Luna Sea
• Diary of an Exhibition – Lunatic
• Diary of an Exhibition – Lost Moments in Paint
• Diary of an Exhibition – Triptych
• Diary of an Exhibition – Triptych or Not?
• Diary of an Exhibition – Wind and Sea
• Diary of an Exhibition – Mask
• Diary of an Exhibition – Chasing Light
• Diary of an Exhibition – The Bridge in the Sea
• Transforming Stuff
• I’m Stuck!
• What’s nagging away at you?