I have done a couple of quick watercolour paintings this month inspired by my morning dog walks along Shanklin seafront. It's not that I'm trying to rush things but more a case of fitting in some painting where I can, and more a case of not having as much patience as I used to, not only that but I seem to lose the momentum with bigger paintings and find it difficult sometimes to pick up where I left off, plus I don't really know where this month has gone again! I felt quite

Same reference photo, same board, same paint, same brushes, different outcome... My inspiration this month has come once again from one of my favourite spots on the Island Steephill Cove, Ventnor. These paintings were both created from the same reference photo which I took back on a very cold February afternoon this year, just after taking this photo it began to snow (sadly it didn't come to anything much to my daughter's disappointment!) I was attracted to the dramatic sky (

I considered it was about time that I created a painting from my home town of Shanklin where I live on the Isle of Wight. Most people know this view as Dunnose however my husband begs to differ and pointed out to me that the cliff is actually called 'Knock Cliff'. Well anyway I produced this painting and apparently broadly speaking the place-name element os in Dunnose can mean God (Celtic) the place-name element dun in Dunnose can mean fort (Scots Gaelic Irish) so I'm going

At the end of August I was fortunate enough to visit bonny Scotland, so there's no surprise where my inspiration came from this month. 'Lunan Sands' is my latest painting, it's a beautiful stretch of beach on the scenic Angus coastline. Unlike Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight where we do actually have coloured sands, the coloured sand in my picture is purely fictitious, I got to a point in the painting where it just looked lacklustre and drab, I wanted something more dramatic an