I thought now might be a good time to remind folk of a few workshops in the next few months, each with just a few spaces left: The relevant booking links are on the 2023 workshops page on my site, but here’s a direct link to the first one, a sketching workshop at Calder Graphics in Huddersfield…

I am incredibly proud to finally be able to let you all know about the project that’s kept me occupied, and fairly quiet on social media since the start of the year: 48,000 words; many , many new illustrations; a lot of re-writing, and a few headaches and my magnum opus is now with my publishers( how posh does that sound?). The design and layout process has started, and I expect to have the page proofs to check (carefully) by mid August and an index to create, then it’ll go to print.

Publication is excepted to be early next year, and you can bet I’ll be letting everyone know just where and when it can be bought. My publishers are The Crowood Press, who will be selling it directly from their site initially, and I’ll also have copies to sell (which I can sign, personalise and dedicate ) -again, I’ll let everyone know as and when these are available.

Here’s the proof of the front and back covers: I actually wrote the blurb for the back cover, so it’s quite surreal to see what professional writers have done with my text!

So, after over six months of drawing, writing, re-writing and re-drawing, I finally sent the files for my book on Pen and Wash techniques to my publisher! The process of typesetting, design, proof reading( my job!!!), print and publishing is now in process. I’ll update everyone as and when I can share anything meaningful…..in the interim, I managed to curate a short collection of drawings( that don’t appear in the technique book) which is now available from my Etsy shop…click the Esty link and it’ll take you straight there.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1499307886/new-drawings-2022-to-2023

As a thank you for bearing with me through the months of silence, and while stocks last, I’ll include a FREE greetings card from my new range for orders paced during July.