First painting of the year and I fancied a bit of colour! It’s in acrylic, nice and big at 36″ by 36″ called Salsa, because I thought it looks a bit hotter than some of my other paintings…

The first round of the Italian range pots went down so well that I am now making a new batch. They take two days to make, starting with cutting the shapes, leaving overnight to leather harden; then joining together the body; attaching a neck and carving ’til it is nice and smooth. Each one unique.

This was the first batch, now mostly sold…

Some my new pots I have made in my Italian range. Because of the way these glazes work, I never know how they are going to look till I open my kiln, how exciting!

My pencil drawing of a Zebra; such a pretty animal, and lovely to draw.

As a few people have requested a work-in-progress, here are three stages of my new drawing of a camel with the very flyaway hair.

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I have been hand-building some new shaped vases inspired by some Italian pottery we have seen there; I really enjoyed working out how to make the shapes. Will definitely be making some more. The pictures show the two sides of the same pot.

I wouldn’t normally choose to do a drawing of pigeons, but I did think these two looked rather cute…

A new, small acrylic painting 12″ x12″ called In Flight – bet you can see why – I hope you like it.

My new drawing in pencil of my favourite animal, the elephant. This one’s an Indian elephant.