After many years of lugging bags of unused art materials along tricky coastal paths I have finally condensed my sketching kit!

Whatever time of year there is plenty of inspiration

Muddy walks and quick sketches around the village

Windswept hedgerows are great to draw

wrap up warm card

I love on the spot sketching, its such a challenge! Watercolours are perfect, they dry quickly and have a fabulous spontinaity about them.

Lands End to Sennen

One of my favourite sketching trips is along the coastal path between Lands End and Sennen, trying to capture the changing colours of the seasons and the effects of changing weather ...never a dull moment!

Sennen Beach

Sennen is a great place for sketching, there is always something going on

Sennen Beach walk mug

wild duck designs cards

A selection of cards from on the spot watercolour sketches

Sketches, Sights & Stories

Sennen Sunsets

I am fascinated by dramatic skies and sunsets. The sunsets at Sennen provide endless inspiration and great painting challenges!

Its fun trying to capture a little of what its like to live and holiday in this beautiful part of the world

Storm clouds

The sky can set the mood of a painting

Golden light

End of day

Stormy Sunset

Art prints

Sinterescent Art prints are extremely high quality. Printed using environmentally friendly inks on FSC acid free papers they are expected to last at least 300 years!

At sea

I enjoy sketching people - pencil is a lovely medium for figurative drawing and storytelling

Monoprinting

Its always fun experimenting, this print was created by drawing and rubbing the back of a sheet of paper that was placed on some rolled out left over ink. printmaking can take on its own narrative

Printmaking press

Drypoint etching

Drypoint is an intaglio method of printmaking where the drawing is scraped into a printmaking plate, covered with ink, wiped and run through an etching press. The pressure of the press pushes the ink from the incised lines onto the paper producing lovely velvety lines. You can see the indentation of the plate on the paper.

I then painted the print with watercolour

I was experimenting here using part of a waste plastic bottle as a drypoint printing plate

Wild duck designs

wild duck designs is a small evolving card and print company set up in partnership with my lovely brother Paul

Windy day in Cornwall

A happy bad hair day!

Its fun to get a little silly at times

A selection of wild duck designs cards can be found on my stall at Sennen Market. To find out more about wild duck designs and to keep in touch visit www.wildduckdesigns.co.uk a simply splendid sibling site!

Market Gallery

my stall is just around the corner! Fabulous Sennen market runs every Tuesday morning 9.30 - 12.30 throughout the year, if you are ever in Sennen on a Tuesday morning pop up and say hello!

Sennen Market

This is the view from the upstairs Gallery at Sennen Market Wonderfully colourful Sennen Market is a joy to behold! With the best local producers and talented makers the market is famous for its quality and friendliness and also supports a number of local charities too To find out more visit www.facebook/sennenmarket

Snapshot of my stall

FLAME

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