Last night, as we were driving to Catherine's, Robert said, "ten years ago, if someone were to say to you, in ten years time you will be hooning X Oxfordshire in a turbo Astra to go to a garden party
I'm starting to love Nancy's Friday random thoughts. It's hard to chose just five, but we must be disciplined! I also love Oxfordshire in late summer. It's so golden and beautiful. I want to paint every thing I see and capture
Each time I design a garden I do a through examination of my client and my client's space. This time I'm lucky because my client is also my very good friend Catherine. Catherine lives on the chalk downs in Oxfordshire and
Oh my gosh time is just flying so fast! I've designed and am installing a rather large garden for my friend and client Catherine, that I haven't had much time to update. But things are starting to slow a little and
There is a store in Oxford I love more than anything else. It's called Scriptum, and it is a writer's dream. You find it at the end of a small lane and if you didn't know it's there, you'd walk right by
I've been studying linocuts on the net. I've been looking at other artist's work and comparing it to my two attempts. (By the way, this is a path to disaster and I highly recommend not doing that, and soon I
About one block from the Oxford Print Cooperative, which I went to visit yesterday, is the home store of the world famous Annie Sloan! How lucky am I to live so close to Oxford? Did I hear someone say, "Who is
Do you remember when I wrote the post about cutting my first linocut a few days ago? I pondered about better tools and better equipment, and I emailed the Oxford Printmakers Cooperative and got a lovely email back from instructor
This Sunday dawned sunny but, by mid-morning, the wind whipped up and the sky clouded over and acted like one giant flood light. There was some call for rain showers by lunch, but Robert and I decided to go for a
Oxford is a university town. You can see this is true because some days the student's bicycles outnumber the tourists. Often when I'm in town, someone will ask me a question like, "Excuse me, could you point me in the direction