Graphite Fine Art
It’s a question I’m often asked – why pencil? Why not paint, or pastel, or anything more colourful? I’ve dabbled with other media. I’ve made pictures with charcoal and pen and ink, and I enjoy sketching outdoors with pen and ink and watercolour. The summer before last I used only coloured pencils for a couple…
The Isle of Purbeck is not an island at all. It’s surrounded on three sides by the sea, open sea to the east and south, Poole harbour to the north. It’s very much attached to the mainland on the west, where the lovely town of Wareham marks the gateway to the isle. I grew up…
The weather is just beginning to hint at warmer days to come here on the Dorset coast. Spring is in the air. I’ve had a busy start to the year with lots of lovely family things going on, plus a trip to Rome at the end of February. I love Rome! We also got to…
I started this website in 2013 with a post about the OHTO Graphic Liner. I’d discovered the pen via the Pen Addict and I was so very excited about how fantastic it was that I had to tell the world. (I still use them now.) Over time I reviewed hundreds of pens, notebooks and pencils…
Here’s the third (and, I think, final) picture in my set of drawings of reeds. The three together make a good set, I think. They’re all available in my shop: Reeds IReeds IIReeds III