Small paintings on cotton paper, mostly made on Sunday mornings, mostly from life.

Watercolour of a beach at low tide: pale sky, a grey shoreline, wet sand and a row of wooden posts. — Low tide31 × 23 cm, 2025

Watercolour of two apple trees in autumn, with fallen apples in the grass. — Orchard, late October23 × 31 cm, 2025

Watercolour still life: a blue bowl of lemons on a table in front of a window looking out on hills. — Window with lemons26 × 26 cm, 2026

Notes

I paint small, rarely larger than a sheet folded in half. Most of these start as a quick sketch on the spot and are finished at the kitchen table the same day, before I can talk myself into fixing them.

Paper is 300 g cold-pressed cotton. The palette is short: two blues, a yellow ochre, burnt sienna, a red, and whatever lemon yellow is nearest. Colours are mixed on the paper more often than on the palette.

New pieces go up here when they are dry and I still like them a week later.