Gathering - Postcards from the North
A beachcombing sketchbook, gannets and Maiden's Garlands
Still Sketching
Still sketching: art, reading, and the hidden stories of women artists from my Norfolk studio
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Why Drawing Matters
How interruption led to seeing with fresh eyes and why we should all try drawing
Nothing Said
A novel for summer days by Lucy M. Boston, dipping my toes in the river and back into ink.
A Monthly Gathering: July - A Bunch of Summer
Some Cider with Rosie, a Shirley Thompson discovery, riotous hollyhocks and fairies at the bottom of the garden
The Name on a Penguin Cover
The unexpected story of Shirley Thompson, Melissa Harrison's The Given World and vintage radio listening.
Through the Woods
Agnes Miller Parker, H. E. Bates and the remembered countryside
A Monthly Gathering: June
A good year for the roses, Elizabeth Blackadder and the iris who found her name
The return of old friends
A portrait, a garden and finding steadiness
The Vanishing of Krystyna Turska
Searching for the life of a forgotten illustrator and a magical book forty years on
A Monthly Gathering: May
The delights of the merry month of May