I haven’t done my Weekly Snaps for absolutely ages, so I thought I’d put together as I think I've taken more photos this week than in the past 3 weeks together ( although I may just have snuck in a photo from a couple of...
I’ve been practicing colour combination collections on my table on and off over the last couple of months, inspired by suggestions made on my @5ftinf Instagram feed...
My memories as a child of decorating for Christmas were basically doing the tree with my brother. I can’t remember any ritual surrounding the choosing of a tree, one just always appeared. I was obsessed with tinsel and always wanted to wear it and I...
Today’s composition was inspired by some artichoke heads my friend was about to dead head in her garden at the weekend...
I was working with yellows today; a sort of burnt, yellowy gold collation , and a sort of homage to the end of the Summer and the approach of Autumn...
I’ve been working on some of the details for my new online course starting in September and wanted to share them here first with a few images to give you a taste of the sort of thing I’ll be teaching ( There’s also more information...
I just had to write a quick post as I can’t bear throwing these dahlias away; I find their beautiful decay just as alluring and inspiring as when I first put them on the table over a week ago...
I woke up today needing, or maybe just feeling, something of the reds and yellows...
It always kind of takes me by surprise when I see something out of the corner of my eye and then suddenly know I have to get to the table and create a new composition. The table is the best blank canvas I’ve ever had, I...
It’s been a few years since I first discovered the National Dahlia Collection and wrote about it here and then shared more pictures another year here but basically each time I visit 3 things always happen; I can’t stop taking photos, I can’t stop collecting compost heap...