For many many years I illustrated books using watercolour. I got fed up with the medium and haven't touched my watercolour kit for a lon...

The very first time I came to England I visited Kettle's Yard and fell in love with Alfred Wallis' work. I thought it was amazing t...

This is the second one of the series "Neighbours". And a third one is already on the go.

This country life is not for me. I don't have the constitution for it. It is a jungle and my animals and plants are a constant worry. If...

Last year my neighbours invited me to watch a polo match. Rather fascinating activity. I tried to draw horses, or shall I say polo ponies. R...

The Annual exhibition of the Wood Engravers Society is still touring around. This time it will be in Yorkshire, don't miss it: 7th Mar...

Sometimes I buy second hand books and when I open them I discover that have belonged to public libraries. I love that, but sometimes, like i...

A block of cherry tree that I brought from Germany has been laying on my desk all these months waiting for me to do something on its surface...

Oh, I couldn't help it. Optimus Maximus is so beautiful I had to make a print of him. It was interesting to make a woodcut instead of a ...

It's been a very eventful morning. We have been given a magnificent Welsummer Cockerel which was either going to become part of a winter...

Well well well. Guess what? I am now a member of the Wood Engravers Society! The Society was founded in 1920 by a group of artists that in...

I got baby Jesus in the rosca and today one of the kings in a white van delivered a box full of these cards with my print Mr Knightley loves...

Yesterday (16th December) was Jane Austen's birthday. In such day every year, the House-Museum opens the doors for everybody to come and...

I am back from the book fair in Guadalajara. This book fair, I just learned, is the second biggest in the world after Frankfurt, that's ...

I'm in Mexico.  Mexico is in a terrible state at the moment. The people is tired of corruption and injustice, there are protests and the...