There I was scrabbling around in the the back end of my twenties wondering where the years had gone, and more to the point worrying about where I was...

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Or to find any pot of gold for that matter, whether...

I am signing off now for the year because on Saturday I fly to Australia for the Christmas holidays!! I never saw that coming but we were blessed with...

I am busy preparing for this Saturday’s Open Art Studio Day so I thought it best to show you in video format, rather than write. Enjoy!...

Those who have been following my blogs regularly will know that I love exploring, especially this far north corner of the UK that is Caithness. I was...

So we have turned that corner and officially stepped into Winter hours. The nights are already drawing in and it gets more difficult to paint once the...

I have weaknesses – yes I am human! But the one that came to my mind last weekend was the fact that I am not very good at selling – myself...

“Bothy – (In Scotland) a small hut or cottage, especially one for housing farm labourers or for use as a mountain refuge”, Oxford...

I wish to tackle the tricky subject of love today. Not romantic love, but real love. The reason being that it is in my thoughts as I have just...

Is it just me or does time pass quicker the older we get? How quickly the days turn into months and the months into seasons. I seem to always get...

Trauma, stress, worries, doubt, fear; whatever you want to call it, it all has a knack of shrouding your path, zapping your strength and sometimes...

There comes a time in every person’s life when they gulp, take a breath and have to pinch themselves because they can’t quite believe what...

One of my favourite things to do in the Far North of Scotland is to go exploring and by that I mean far off the beaten track. I take an Ordnance...