When I taught a workshop in the Cotswolds in the summer of 2024, I never thought it would take me till now to finish my travel journal from that two-week long trip. But you know how it goes…life got busy and there were more workshops to prepare for and new sketchbooks to fill. So it’s […]
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Giverny Concertina Sketchbook
It’s always good to mix things up and try something new, so, in the middle of finishing up the travel journal from my recent trip to France, I decided to take a detour and play around with a concertina sketchbook I’ve had in my stash for awhile. While working on the travel journal, I’d been […]
Sketching in Giverny – Monet’s Famous Lily Pond
Years ago, long before I dared to dream of the life I’m now living, I looked at pictures of Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny with a sense of wonder and admiration. The iconic view of the lily pond with its arched Japanese bridge was so perfect it almost seemed unreal. But one day last September, […]







