A few more drawings of the lovely birds in my terrace… All drawings are coloured pencil and ink. Here is that pigeon I have to start on! (All originals and prints are available through author’s website. She is also happy to […]
One of the jobs I had written on my long list of things to do during the lockdown was to sort through my bookshelves and try to put my books in some kind of alphabetical order. Nearly a month later […]
As I sit drinking my morning coffee I am lucky to be able to watch birds come into my terrace to feed on bread crumbs we put out for them. They are your regular garden birds but all so pretty […]
These three Chillida Leku Sculpture illustrations were drawn from photos I took on a visit to this wonderful museum back in the summer of last year. I have invented the titles for each one as I cannot remember them and […]
Fourteen-year-old Amaia Bacaicoa Jones from San Sebastian has been keeping occupied during the lockdown by taking photos.
I wanted to draw a series of Cantabrian fish. The local ones that are so popular in the Donosti Aquarium (and also in the restaurants!). My first and probably favourite is the humble Anchovy, or not quite so humble as […]
As of this last weekend, my mother-in-law has been locked down for one month. Thirty one days, by herself, in her apartment, in a neighborhood called Herrera, on the outer edges of San Sebastian. And while the rest of us, […]
Inspired by Chillida Leku, I have recently drawn some of my favourite sculptures of his, starting with what is without a doubt his most famous, the Peine del Viento, The Comb of the Wind. It stands at the end of […]
I’ve just received a lovely message from my niece in the UK wishing me a Happy Easter, and we reminded each other of how we had been together this time last year. In the current situation, I would have probably […]
Every once in a while, this Covid-19 thing brings back flashes of Nicaragua, where I spent a good part of three years between 1983 and 1986, first as a cotton- and coffee-picking brigadista (that’s me with the shovel on latrine […]
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