Trees: Small-leaved lime or Linden
Small-leaved lime Tilia cordata and other Lime or Linden trees This is [...]
Small-leaved lime Tilia cordata and other Lime or Linden trees This is [...]
Recently, I’ve illustrated the Great Burnet, Sanguisorba officinalis for an interpretation board, to [...]
As you may have noticed, I’m rather obsessed with grasses, and have blogged [...]
A recent commission involved illustrating 30 species for Braunton Burrows, a very beautiful [...]
Orchids have always been a bit of a mystery to me, so when [...]
Cannock Chase Berry Vaccinium x intermedium is a really tricky subject to illustrate, [...]
Birch trees: The Silver and the Downy Birch There are two main [...]
Introduction Beech trees are common across Britain, favouring chalky soils. The oldest Beech [...]
Montserrat is an island in the Carribbean, part of the Leeward isles and [...]
Botanical illustrations of yellow flowers can be really challenging. As you try to [...]
I recently went on another excellent FSC course, this time on identifying grasses [...]
Hay Festival approached me early in the year, to see if I could [...]
Trees: Yew is another blog inspired by my illustrations for The Tree Forager [...]
Geraniums, Crane’s-bills and Stork’s-bills is a guest blog from the wonderful Stewart Roberts, a [...]
The Hidden Universe by Alexandre Antonelli is a short and powerful book. I [...]
Trees: Elder is another blog inspired by my illustrations for “The Tree Forager” [...]
Heath star moss is one of three invasive species I’ve just illustrated for [...]
Habit sketches are an important aspect of doing botanical illustrations. They need to [...]
Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvestris was on the list of plants I recently illustrated [...]
I recently completed a blueberry illustration for a packaging job, and thought it’d [...]
Trees: Rowan is another blog inspired by my illustrations for “The Tree Forager” [...]
Trees: Ash This is the third in my series on common trees, and [...]
Trees: Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus is a maple, and is Europe’s largest maple species. [...]
I’ve been working on illustrations for “The Tree Forager” by Adele Nozedar, due [...]
Periwinkle species feature on the list of a recent job of invasive plants [...]
A recent job involved highlighting differences between the Japanese hop Humulus japonicus, and the [...]
A recent job involved trying to show the differences between two species of [...]
Comparing Goldenrod species was one of my tasks in a recent commission for [...]
The Garden Lupin, Lupinus polyphyllus, is one of the invasive plants I was [...]
I’ve recently completed work on a series of sketchbook illustrations of invasive plants. [...]
In February, my series of Coastal Flower postage stamps were published by Jersey [...]
Jersey Post recently brought out their “Coastal Flowers: Post and Go” stamp issue, [...]
Halophytes: Salt Tolerant Plants Halophytes are plants that tolerate or thrive in salty [...]
I’ve recently completed a series of thirty three botanical illustrations of coastal flowers [...]
Save the bees and make your garden a Bee haven! This week’s Guest [...]
Illustrating a Hay Meadow: The Commission A recent commission to illustrate a hay [...]