Sketch With Me Once A Month Online With My Sketch Club
If you’d like to kick-start your sketching practice this autumn then don’t delay – sign up for my Sketch Club by 1st September!
Tour de France 2026 – Part 3
I spent a dreamy week teaching a wonderful group in Atelier Clos Mirabel, in Southwest France, this July.
Tintin and David Attenborough Are In A Clown Car…
I have produced a new physical, paper comic. It’s called Wild Atlantic Ink. I promise to do my best never to be boring.
“Vignettes of the Pyrenees”: Urban Sketching in France 2026
Join me in France this summer for a week that promises to be unforgettable. From 25th July to 1st August 2026, I will teach a one-week Urban Sketching course in ink and watercolour in the beautiful Clos Mirabel, a French manor house near the city of Pau in the far south of the country, in…
Everything Is Copy
I was one of the lucky people to have taken part in the annual International Urban Sketching Symposium this August, which took place in the very pretty city of Poznan, in the west of the country. I was one of 18 instructors from all over the world, representing Ireland in my own small but very…
Learning From The Old Masters Of illustration
This summer I have been experiencing a surge in creativity. You know those ones? An itch that can only be relieved by prolific drawing and painting. And so I had the bright idea of offering an “art summer camp” in which my students and I would study anything at all, from lettering and fonts, to…
Sketching Odyssey In The Aegean: A Week In Greece
Tuesday 22nd April I am heading to Greece to spend a week with nine students from all over the world. They, like me, are keen sketchers, and I will share some of my techniques with them as we explore the hills, valleys and coast of the hidden part of Greece where we’ll be staying. I’ve…
Tulip Mania: Five Ways Of Sketching A Spring Bouquet
This post is about my current mania for sketching tulips, my attempts to capture their beauty and the pros and cons of each approach. At the end, you’ll find details of my summer teaching schedule. 1. Ink and watercolour on 100% cotton cold pressed 250g A6 Portrait Hahnemühle sketchbook Pros: Cons: 2. Gouache on Fabriano…
Join Me For An Art Course In Greece April 23rd – 30th, 2025
As I gaze out into the winter storm from my studio here in Galway, I allow my mind to drift to scenes of sunsets and sundowners in Greece in only a few months’ time. Exactly five months from now your hostess Sue Wake and I will welcome creative souls from all over the world to…
Sketch Club: Update – Please Read
Sketch Club Starting 1st September To all of you who would like to join the Sketch Club starting on Sunday: First class Monday 2nd September (not Tuesday 3rd September) The first class takes place on Monday 2nd September at 7.00pm Irish time (that’s IST). I previously said 2nd September. Class should run for 90 minutes.…