The Hellebores in the garden have been looking fresh and fine. I've been trying to use them in a composition but it just didn't seem to be working out. When the weather was poor I put some in a vase to bring in and one thing led to another..... I have actually painted...

I've just finished a new lino print. It's an idea that has been developing in my mind for a while. A combination of some photographs and sketches looking from the river in front of the beer garden towards Crickhowell bridge and a seated female figure from a life drawin...

A year or so ago on a trip to Krakow, Poland I 'stumbled' across the work of an artist called Jacek Malczewski(1854-1929).

There were just a few pictures as part of a larger exhibition of items that had been given to the city museum by a collector.

I remembered the image...