Charity Night at Brindle Distillery

This drawing was made looking down at the Cuckoo's Nest during the amazing Saturday night's event; such warmth, generosity and exuberant joy! Thousands of pounds made for Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.

Create Longridge

Birthday Girl

I spent a lovely day yesterday, drawing at Hoppy Days micro pub, my contribution to Create Longridge.

Art at the Inn

A painting day at the Inn at Whitewell, Forest of Bowland,  in aid of Mancheck.

The title of this pastel drawing into an OS map is Well Met at Mellor Knoll on account of  Mellor Knoll being the only place where the map and drawing coincides (it is the hill on the skyline on the left edge)

Making a Mark at the Harris Museum

Before Sound Josh Horsley 24 meter print produced in collaboration with Magda Stawarska-Beavan

The long print, spanning from ground floor to ceiling up through the centre of the Harris Museum, gave me the incentive to spend all day drawing the wonderful space and the unfolding Aziz Ibrahim concert on the first floor. 

Larmer Tree Wedding

1.2m x 1m. Drawn with pastels into a stretched piece of furnishing fabric, rich with ferns.

Create Longridge

People (and lots of dogs), avoiding the rain and enjoying Fullaloves wine bar.

Young Dancers!

A fabulous session with three dedicated models dancing & posing for us at Drink and Draw.

Straw Bale Building

Volunteers and staff carefully creating the walls of the new visitor centre at Cuerden Valley Park.

Roof trusses arrive at Cuerden Valley Park's new visitor centre!

I drew from the back of my van as the team worked in high winds, and rain, to move the first roof trusses.

Ginger La Rouge at Drink and Draw

An amazing evening in Blackburn Museum; surrounded by Victorian narrative paintings of the gallery Ginger performed compelling burlesque dances . . . and we drew!

Cuerden Valley Park; Woodhenge!

Huge progress has been made since my last visit to the site of the new visitor centre.  Another 1.2m x 1m drawing on patterned fabric, using chalk, charcoal and pastels.

Foundations for Cuerden Valley's new visitor centre

Park volunteers, and staff, laboriously filling tyres with compacted rock chippings.  The site has a wonderful view over the valley.

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Subcutaneum

Showing rare breed sheep

RBST tent at CountryFest

Rocky Horror Picture Show at Blackburn's Drink and Draw

Kochi Biennale approaches!

Things are hotting up on Valsan Koorma Kolleri's site; more laterite blocks were delivered and unloaded by a huge fleet of blue-shirted 'union' handlers.

Valsan Kolleri making work for the Kochi Biennale

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale opens here on 12th December.  I have been fortunate enough to be able to draw artist Valsan Koorma Kolleri at work (with a considerable team of masons) on his structure of laterite.

Fish!

Beneath the fish stall drawing is an earlier one of the Chinese fishing nets and fishing boats.

Cheralai poppadum maker

Every day of the year Usha spending hours making poppadums upon the Cheralai pavement near Palace Road.  Drawing the whole process of kneading the dough, rolling it into a long sausage, cutting into small pieces, pressing flat, rolling with metal pin, weighting the stack, spreading out on a sack to dry in the sun. . . . .is fascinating.  She does everything with supreme deftness and at speed, with a rhythm and a generous smile.