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Oak amongst the ox-eyes

A young oak spreading its wings in a field of ex-eye daisies in The Cotswolds

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 28cm x 38cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£695 Contact me here

Gathering clouds

The water meadows at Daylesford in The Cotswolds

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 28cm x 38cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£695 Contact me here

Ancient routes

The beech trees at the Stane Street cross roads in Eartham Wood

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£750 from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Last light above Bignor

Evening mist settling in on the Downs above Bignor Roman Villa

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£750 from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Roman route

Sun through the trees that line Stane Street

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£750 from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Light lines

Light on the Roman road in Eartham Wood

Oil, charcoal and graphite on canvas framed in FSC wood

Image: 61cm x 91cm
Frame: 65cm x 95cm

£2250 from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Following ancient paths +SOLD+

Shadows across the Roman road in Eartham Wood

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 50cm x 68cm
Frame: 69cm x 87cm

SOLD from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Receding light

I was lucky enough to be wandering in Petworth Park and catch this winter late afternoon sunset

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC ash

Artwork: 30cm x 46cm
Framed: 39cm x 53cm

£995 from Kevis House Gallery Petworth

Let's Go Wild

Sustainable Shaftesbury has produced a free illustrated poster to encourage the town's residents to welcome wildlife into their gardens.

Advice about simple steps to attract hedgehogs, insects, birds and butterflies to their backyards is also available as an interactive graphic . The project has been put together by the council-backed Sustainable Shaftesbury committee and written by Angela King and Sue Clifford who, along with Roger Deakin co-founded Common Ground, the creators of Apple Day. Ex-Sunday Times Graphics Editor Gary Cook produced the illustrations to highlight that small, easy measures and changes to how we garden can help to reverse the 70% decline in biodiversity we are witnessing.

The group is offering the artwork free to other councils to produce their own versions of the poster and help sow the seed of relaxed gardening and the positive impact it can make on wildlife populations, further afield.

Over three quarters of the UK population are concerned about climate change and biodiversity loss and this poster, which features the town's star attraction Gold Hill, offers a range of solutions to combat it, many effort-free. For example, “Enjoy the quiet of No Mow May! Park the lawnmower for a while: welcome the wild flowers and listen to the grasshoppers. Check for slow-worms, hedgehogs, frogs and other creatures before strimming or mowing." Or "Let some of your garden go wild. Allow daisies, buttercups, forget-me-nots, clovers and mixed grasses to grow. Dandelion flowers are an important early food source for bumblebees and butterflies." Other advice includes "Plant fruit and nut trees, flowering shrubs with berries. Share a tenth (tithe) of your produce from apples to red currants with creatures great and small."

An interactive version can be seen here . The poster and leaflets are available free from Shaftesbury Town Council and throughout Shaftesbury. Contact Brie Logan, Town Clerk at Shaftesbury Town Council for free use of the illustrations. More information and interviews with Sue Clifford at sue.mclifford@btinternet.com

Reflecting giant

The trunk of the enormous oak in Bourton-on-the-water is ten metres around

Oil and charcoal board, framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£650 Contact me here

Spring in the lane

Early spring in the lane above the mill. Species I saw or heard while painting are written into the background along with the detail of a brimstone butterfly that flitted by

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 34cm x 24cm
Frame: 41cm x 30cm

£725 from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Walk up to town

A late winter view of the walk up to town. Come June and July we spot glow-worms displaying in the bank on the right during the walk back home from the pub on warm evenings. Species I saw or heard while painting are written into the background along with a glow-worm

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 34cm x 24cm
Frame: 41cm x 30cm

£725 from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Pioneer

A pioneer tree trying to reforest Dartmoor

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC ash

Artwork: 30cm x 46cm
Framed: 39cm x 53cm

£995 from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Crumbling wall

Looking across sweeping Cotswold fields

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£695 contact me here

Mist in the beech wood

Low sun and mist in the beech woods near Broadway Tower in the Cotswolds

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 contact me here

Along the bridleway

Following paths near the Roman Villa at Chedworth in the Cotswolds

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£695 contact me here

Towering beech

A beautiful beech ravine near Hepworth in Yorkshire. We drove up from Dorset to see our friend Sue who lives there. To stretch our legs and give Laika a walk we wandered across the fields, past the football club and down into this shaded valley with the trees gathering around a stream working its way off the moors. Beech have shallow roots that suffer in drought conditions. The London dowd moth in the corner of the watercolour is one of the many species dependent on beech trees.

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Rainforest stream

Temperate rainforest like Horner Wood on Exmoor are very rare. Once, much of the country would have looked like this. The wood provides a diverse habitat for many species, like the Great oak beauty, depicted on the watercolour, which lives on oak trees that thrive here in this shaded valley fed by a stream working its way off the moors

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Shining through

Walking in the beech woods near Cranham in the Cotswolds

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 44cm x 29cm
Frame: 53cm x 39cm

£1150 from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Gate to the smallholding

The gate into John and Carol's smallholding at the highest part of French Mill Lane

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 44cm x 29cm
Frame: 53cm x 39cm

£1150 from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Under the chattering ravens

In the shade of the holloway on French Mill Lane. Ravens cawing and chattering to each other from their nest above me provided the backdrop while I painted. I only had to move my easel three times when sat-nav-following delivery vans came down the quiet lane

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£695 contact me here

Skylarks and Speckled Wood

Plein air painting on Melbury Beacon listening to Skylarks overhead and seeing Speckled Wood butterflies in the shade of the ash and beech trees

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on board framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

£695 contact me here

Mist in the back field

An early morning walk in the fields with sun burning through the fog

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 contact me here

Avenue of ancients

Centuries-old oak trees lining the road near Stanway House

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 contact me here

Wind on water

The Stour near Sturminster Newton

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 from The Art Stable Child Okeford, Dorset
One of 30 paintings in my solo exhibition Wend: the Stour from source to sea 11 June to 9 July. Private View Friday 17 June 6-8pm

Dusk falls on Blandford

Winter sun going down near Blandford Bridge. "We might see an otter." I said to my friend as we walked along the Stour in the centre of Blandford Forum an hour earlier. "But probably not. You have to get here at dawn really."……Cue otter. Names of species dependent in some way on the river are written into the painting.

Watercolour and charcoal on paper, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 34cm x 24cm
Framed: 41cm x 31cm

£695 from The Art Stable Child Okeford, Dorset
One of 30 paintings in my solo exhibition Wend: the Stour from source to sea 11 June to 9 July. Private View Friday 17 June 6-8pm

Spoilt

COP27 has been, gone and been forgotten. The news cycle has moved on and the headlines it made have already become a sad and distant memory. To my mind, the oil companies, lobbyists and their friends have got away with it again. They gave us warm words about slow, long-term fossil-fuel reduction targets but we're still left with a heating planet.

If the oilmen in suits were physically setting fire to our forests there would be uproar and strenuous efforts made to stop them. But they are doing it more indirectly and subtly so that we hardly notice that it's happening. But it really is. Our woodlands are burning up and so are we. The shocking thing about the oil industry's actions is that it has known for years what the outcome of burning fossil fuels would be on the planet. Sadly, profits trump that knowledge.

These are the words written around the edges of the painting:
"BP intends investing £3bn in renewables by 2025. Over the same time period it will spend £53bn on fossil fuel exploration and production. Oil and gas contribute 19,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to the planet each year. BP's revenue in 2019 was £208bn. It aims to increase oil and gas production by 20% over the next ten years, yet intends reaching net zero emissions by 2050. The world's oil companies invest 1% of their budgets in clean energy. They're knowingly burning us alive."

Sources: clientearth.org, The Guardian, ourworldindata.org

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 35cm x 25cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 from The Art Stable

Last light

Lucky to see a great sky on an early evening walk.

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

Image: 29 x 20cm
Frame: 39 x 28cm

£695 from The Art Stable

Reed gap

Near Wimborne where the river divides and passes White Mill Bridge. Names of species dependent in some way on the river are written into the painting.

Watercolour and charcoal on paper, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 34cm x 24cm
Framed: 41cm x 31cm

£695 from The Art Stable Child Okeford, Dorset
One of 30 paintings in my solo exhibition Wend: the Stour from source to sea 11 June to 9 July. Private View Friday 17 June 6-8pm

Arching hazel

Overgrown coppiced hazel now creates a lovely shaded arch on the track up to Writh Farm

Ink and watercolour on paper, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 26cm x 15cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£550 contact me here

Morning mist

A misty morning in PIne Walk

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 44cm x 29cm Framed: 53cm x 39cm

£995 contact me here

Beech ravine

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 contact me here

Beech stream

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 contact me here

Misty ash

A beautiful drooping ash in a lane in the Cotswolds. There are 1,058 different species of bats to mammals, lichen to fungi dependent in some way on ash. Dieback disease has now covered the whole country and we are predicted to slowly lose most of these lovely trees. Winner of the Popular Choice Award at the @brutonart annual exhibition.

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm
Frame: 87cm x 69cm

£1995 Contact me here

Charge Nurse Riley in the temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests in the UK such as Horner Wood are globally rare and more threatened than tropical rainforest. This wood includes hazel, ash, birch and oak and is a diverse habitat. There are 2,300 different species of bats to mammals, lichen to fungi dependent in some way on oak.

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 67cm x 50cm
Frame: 87cm x 73cm

£1995 contact me here

Wardour Castle No3

There are 1,058 UK species associated with ash trees, ranging from beetles to birds, lichens to mammals. All will be affected when we lose up to 90% of the UKs 70m ash trees from dieback disease. Research is ongoing into replanting these trees with ash bred with tolerance to the infection

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in waxed FSC ash

11in x 8in / 28cm x 20cm

£595 contact me here here

Chastelton close cut

The Chasteleton oak has been standing for 1,000 years

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood
Artwork: 44cm x 29cm
Framed: 53cm x 39cm

£995 contact me here

The young oaks

These young trees are (very) slowly getting bigger. They must be around 40 years old now and would have started growing just before we started slashing the hedges with tractor trimmers. There are no younger oaks along the lane because the industrial hedge trimmers aren’t able to spot a new sapling, which would be allowed to mature and so everything in the hedge is cut. There are 2,300 different species of bats to birds, lichen to mammals dependent in some way on oak trees

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 44cm x 29cm
Framed: 53cm x 39cm

£995 contact me here

Foggy morning

Walking past the old oak along Gascoigne's Lane on a foggy morning

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 contact me here

High summer mist

Along the lane in Ashmore with a high summer drizzle cloaking the trees

Part of The Arborealists exhibition, 'Being with trees' in Gibraltar 19 Jan -12 Mar 2021

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on paper, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 44cm x 29cm
Framed: 53cm x 39cm

£995 contact me here

The shallows

Near Sturminster Mill where the river divides. This half meanders through shallows and overhanging willows. Silhouettes and names of species dependent on the river are hidden in the painting

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 44cm x 29cm
Framed: 53cm x 39cm

£995 contact me here

Nearly home

From a frosty morning walk as the sun slowly warmed its way through the mist. Featured on the SGFA Drawing Together online exhibition

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 contact me here

Sezincote (1370AD)

2,300 species, from birds to beetles, fungi to lichens are dependent on oak trees. This giant tree in the grounds of Sezincote House may have started growing around 1370

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

5ft x 4ft

£3,200 contact me here

Blenheim oak (1400)

2,300 species, from birds to beetles, fungi to lichens are dependent on oak trees. There are 326 species that live solely on oak. This tree started growing around 1400 and stands in the Blenheim Palace estate, the wood with the most ancient oaks in Europe

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

5ft x 4ft

£3,200 contact me here

Antarctica. Deep water. An apology

A couple of years back I was lucky enough to go to Antarctica. After (guiltily) sailing Drake's Passage, which is the 600 miles of open sea where the Pacific and Atlantic meet, this was the first view of land. After two days of seeing dark ocean and icebergs the incredible mountains and ice appearing on the horizon are other-worldly. The massive peaks and glaciers seem so monumental and give a feeling of permanence. Sadly it’s not. These are the words written into the background of the painting:

If the predictions were right this sight, my first glimpse of frozen Antarctica, has completely changed. Even by 2020 the peninsula was 5.5˚ warmer than in the 1950s. I can't imagine what it's like now. I'm sorry, but there weren't enough of us willing to adapt our lives to prevent the planet heating up as it has. We stumbled on, voting for politicians who denied what was happening. Many of them wilfully blocked any change for decades, even though the evidence of the damage we were doing was clear. Millions of us turned a blind eye to our knowing destruction of Earth so that we could lead comfortable and profligate lives, even though we knew that you, in the future, would have to pay for our selfishness.

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm
Frame: 87cm x 69cm

£1995
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Antarctica. Landfall. An apology

Selected for Society of Graphic Fine Art Centenary exhibition at Mall Galleries, London 5 -10 July

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm
Frame: 87cm x 69cm

£1995
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Antarctica. First glimpse. An apology

I was lucky enough to go to Antartica. After sailing for two days without seeing land this was my first sight of the continent. These are the words written into the background of the painting

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm
Frame: 87cm x 69cm

£1995
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Antarctica: freezing but thawing

A view of the becalmed bay near Port Lockroy, inspired by my trip to the frozen Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. A page from my sketchbook while I was there is included, as well as species I saw are written into the background of the painting. To me it felt so cold when I was sketching. I wore two pairs of gloves and took one off to scribble in fingerless cycling gloves, but could only manage a couple of minutes before I had to put both layers back on because of the cold. Sadly, and shamefully, the Peninsula, like its northern cousin the Arctic, is warming at a faster rate than the rest of our heating planet. It is 6degrees warmer now compared to 1950.

Acrylic, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 50cm x 68cm
Frame: 71cm x 90cm

Selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours exhibition at The Mall Galleries from 30 March to 8 April
£1995 contact me here or Mall Galleries

Antarctica: frozen but melting

A view of Wilhelmina Bay, inspired by my trip to the frozen Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. A page from my sketchbook while I was there is included, as well as species I saw are written into the background of the painting. To me it felt so cold when I was sketching. I wore two pairs of gloves and took one off to scribble in fingerless cycling gloves, but could only manage a couple of minutes before I had to put both layers back on because of the cold. Sadly, and shamefully, the Peninsula, like its northern cousin the Arctic, is warming at a faster rate than the rest of our heating planet. It is 6C warmer now compared to 1950.

Acrylic, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 50cm x 68cm
Frame: 71cm x 90cm

Selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours exhibition at The Mall Galleries from 30 March to 8 April
£1995 contact me here or Mall Galleries

Antarctica: cold but warm

Awarded The Frank Herring Easel Prize at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 211th Exhibition for an outstanding work

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 50cm x 68cm
Frame: 71cm x 90cm

Selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours exhibition at The Mall Galleries from 30 March to 8 April
£1995 contact me here or Mall Galleries

Antarctica. Waiting. An apology

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At Society of Graphic Fine Art Centenary exhibition at Mall Galleries, London 5 -10 July

I was lucky enough to go to Antartica. This view shows moulting juvenile penguins waiting for their parents to return and feed them just-caught krill. In recent years penguins that wouldn't have been suited to breeding on the Antarctica Peninsula are now nesting in large numbers due to warming temperatures.

The year before I visited more than a third of penguin chicks on the islands died of starvation. In the same area trawlers were ‘suction' harvesting krill, a tiny crustacean, for our increasing demand for omega 3 food supplements and fish farm food. Scientists believe that with less krill in the area, less food was available to the birds. Fewer surviving penguins means less prey for seals and orca.

These are the words written into the background of the painting:

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 69cm x 93cm
Frame: 90cm x 120m

£2850
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Slow burn

Selected for the Society of Graphic Fine Art exhibition at The Mall Galleries , London from 17-21 May

COP26 has been, gone and been forgotten. The news cycle has moved on and the headlines it made have already become a sad and distant memory. To my mind, the oil companies, lobbyists and their friends have got away with it again. They gave us warm words about slow, long-term fossil-fuel reduction targets but we're still left with a heating planet.

If the oilmen in suits were physically setting fire to our forests there would be uproar and strenuous efforts made to stop them. But they are doing it more indirectly and subtly so that we hardly notice that it's happening. But it really is. Our woodlands are burning up and so are we. The shocking thing about the oil industry's actions is that it has known for years what the outcome of burning fossil fuels would be on the planet. Sadly, profits trump that knowledge.

These are the words written around the edges of the painting:
"In 2020 Shell had sales of £232bn. In the same year it aimed to spend £2bn on low carbon businesses. Its annual marketing budget for 2020 was £2bn. Oil and gas contribute 19,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to the planet each year. Shell spent £1.5bn on low carbon generation from 2016-2020. At the same time it invested £90bn in fossil fuels. Shell is considered to be a climate leader in the industry. Oil companies invest 1% of their budget in clean energy. They are knowingly burning us alive."

Sources: clientearth.org, The Guardian, ourworldindata.org

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm
Frame: 87cm x 69cm

£1950

Warm words

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 35cm x 25cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

Heated words

These are the words written around the edges of the painting:
"ExxonMobil had a turnover of £1,069bn between 2015-2000. During the same time it spent 0.01% of that on low-carbon investments and developments. Oil and gas contribute 19,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to the planet each year. ExxonMobil is the self-proclaimed leader in carbon capture. It stores 9m tonnes of CO2 per year. That is 2% of its annual emissions of 730m tonnes in 2019. The world's oil companies invest 1% of their budgets in clean energy. They're knowingly burning us alive."

Sources: clientearth.org, The Guardian, ourworldindata.org

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 35cm x 25cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£650 contact me here

Earthwork edge

There is evidence that people lived on Hambledon Hill 5,000 years ago, 1,000 years before Stonehenge was built. The worlwide human population in 3,000BC was around 7m. In 1964 it was 3,250m, today there are 7,710m of us

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on paper, framed in FSC wood

11in x 8in / 28cm x 20cm 15in x 9in / 39cm x 29cm framed

£675

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Shardow

There are 8.4m trees in London. I find this an incredible thought, especially when you view the city from high up. Besides looking nice and all the other benefits of trees, that equates to 2.4m tonnes of carbon safely stored away. In 2015 I was lucky to have stayed in the Shangri-La Hotel on the 45th floor of The Shard and captured this scene. From that viewpoint I could see only around ten of the 8.4m.

Thinking back to 2015 gives me painful memories as I struggled to even get to the hotel. Two months before I slipped a disc which made walking or standing excruciating after a couple of minutes. For nine months I tried a succession of exercises and physiotherapies to cure the problem. Sadly none worked and I eventually had an operation that thankfully had me standing pain free instantly. Looking back makes me very grateful

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC ash

Artwork: 30cm x 46cm
Framed: 39cm x 53cm

£995 Contact me here

Jürgen's view?

I stayed in a hotel Liverpool FC use the night before they play a home game. The whole team, including the manager Jurgen Klopp prepare for the match and overnight there. I was lucky enough to get an upgrade to a lovely room on the top floor. I wonder if this is the view Jurgen usually has? Looking out, I could only spot a couple of trees. The centre of Liverpool had 1% tree cover in 2012. It's aiming now to get to 10%

Ink and watercolour on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 Contact me here

8.4m to 1

After sketching the Barn Elms Plane tree I stayed at a hotel in London (serendipitously called the Treehouse in Marylebone). The restaurant is on the 15th floor with 360 degree views. Quite late in the evening, while looking over the London rooftops, I noticed one Plane tree silhouetted in the streetlights. From that particular view it was the only tree I could see. An amazing contrast to the other London tree I’d seen earlier in the day. There are incredibly 8.4m trees in the capital city

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

Artwork: 30cm x 20cm
Framed: 39cm x 29cm

£695 Contact me here

Off the hill

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on paper, framed in FSC wood

11in x 8in / 28cm x 20cm 15in x 9in / 39cm x 29cm framed

£675

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Bourton on the water oak No2

2,300 species, from birds to beetles, fungi to lichens are dependent on oak trees. This giant tree is 10m around

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm

Frame: 87cm x 69cm

£1250 Contact me here

Frozen fields

Snow in the fields at Asmore, the highest village in Dorset

Ink, watercolour and charcoal on board, framed in FSC wood

44cm x 29cm artwork 53cm x 39cm framed

£995 Contact me here

Drifting by

Near Marnhull beneath the River Stour looking up to ivy-clad trees

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm
Unframed

£1200 contact me here
One of 30 paintings in my solo exhibition Wend: the Stour from source to sea

Look up to the trees

Looking up from beneath the Sturkel, one of the 48 tributaries of the River Stour

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 50cm
Unframed

£1200 contact me here
One of 30 paintings in my solo exhibition Wend: the Stour from source to sea

West Melbury oak (1856)

2,300 species, from birds to beetles, fungi to lichens are dependent on oak trees. This acorn was sown around 1856

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood:

88cm x 73cm

£1850 Contact me here

Morning in Eartham +SOLD+

Morning walk on the Monarch’s Way where the Roman road passes through Eartham Wood

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 50cm x 68cm
Frame: 69cm x 87cm

SOLD from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

326: Moonlit Chastleton oak (1020) +SOLD+

2,300 species, from birds to beetles, fungi to lichens are dependent on oak trees. There are 326 species that live solely on oak. This tree in Chastleton may have started growing around 1020

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

5ft x 4ft

SOLD

Shadows on Stane Street +SOLD+

Ash and hazel flank the flint built Stane Street

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

SOLD from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

View to the farm +SOLD

Looking down towards Gumber Farm from the cambered, flinty Stane Street

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

SOLD from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Straight above the spring +SOLD+

The woods near King Alfred's Tower where one of the five springs rise that become the River Stour. Silhouettes and names of species dependent on the river are painted and written into the painting

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 69cm x 94cm
Frame: 89cm x 116cm

SOLD from Adrian Hill Fine Art Holt, Norfolk

Top of the Downs +SOLD+

The climb towards Bignor Hill

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 24cm x 34cm
Frame: 30cm x 41cm

SOLD from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Ice at the top +SOLD+

Frozen puddles near the cross dykes in Charlton Forest

Ink, charcoal and watercolour on paper framed in FSC wood

Image: 68cm x 94cm
Frame: 90cm x 116cm

SOLD from Kevis House Gallery , Petworth
One of a series of paintings as part of The Monarch's Way exhibition at Kevis House Gallery, July 12 - 30

Shaftesbury sketches

Scribbles of the local patch from the sketchbook

Framed in FSC ash

Artwork: 20x13cm

Framed: 25x20cm

£100-£125 from Folde Dorset