The sweet smell of woodsmoke from my studio woodburner drifts over the North Lawn at Norton Conyers as winter begins to bite. Walter’s horses, shrouded in horse blankets by day, are now stabled at…

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Perfectly timed for the recent drop in temperature (can’t have a chilly artist), Dougie and Paul arrived to install the woodburner into the studio on Monday. It is important that we have…

Despite The Guardian stating today that butterflies numbers are substantially down this year, the garden at Norton Conyers is still a’flutter with them. I only saw three species when I was there yesterday…

I very much enjoyed having a group of sixth form students from Skipton GHS into the studio on Tues. I did a demonstration about beginning a painting; I hope it was informative…