One very sleepy morning, I assume that I will wake up shortly. The drawing this morning is one which was finished just ten minuets ago and is straight off the scanner. It is an ink drawing which shows a line of old beech trees; I saw them a few weeks ago in Somerset. The idea is about how the light drifts through and between the trees. A slightly complex drawing which involves no traditional drawing methods; but rather lines, circles, squiggles, scratches and many other kinds of marks, a sort of shorthand, with the final image of a representation of the trees. An A3 drawing, which took quite a while to produce, with a rewarding conclusion.

A nice e-mail this morning; a gallery has approached me and want me to exhibit with them next year; we all like and need encouragement.

Yesterday when in town, Liz and myself bumped into an old friend of hers from long ago. In a few days she is off up north and spending a day or two in York; one of my favourite cities. So here is a water-colour for you Fran.

It was a lovely day sketching in York a couple of years ago. As I was sat on a low wall outside the West end of the Cathedral working, a pony and trap with passengers on board was passing by, the driver stopped and passed me a cushion to sit on, saying that he would be back in half a hour for it. Then shortly afterwards a waitress came out of Betties (the well known coffee shop) with a cup of coffee for me; I was really spoilt that day. Several passers by stopped to chat as well; all in all it was rather pleasant. Maybe the resulting water-colour shows that I was a little happy. Out of interest my last blog was of Wells and not Bath.

Sorry about my last blog (poor grammar, site layout, etc) but really no proper excuses, except for a small machine, new system strange,  surroundings, etc; I will try harder this time.

The above is the main street in Bath, done during a quick stop over to buy some shoes. The rule this year was just one water-colour image in each place visited, this one took just 55 minutes, timed; and then off and away. Good fun and sharpened me up a bit, as well as rest from the usual inks.

Liz and myself have just had a super week at the New Wine Festival in Shepton Mallet in Somerset, we went each morning going to the hungry venue to listen to amazing woman called Emma ? head of theology Trinity College Bristol. Her teaching on Ephesians was just out of this world.

Then each afternoon Liz and myself did the tourist bit and jaunted around, one day we ventured into   Bath and saw this amazing cyclist; hope you like him or her, I am not sure which it is. I suppose  

if we are being correct, it could be non-binary.

We are now in Sheffield, meeting up with lots of friends and simply chilling out a little. See you all in a few days.