The last day of twixtmas.  I thought I would have a little jog through my creative notes from this year when there was a lot of experimentation behind the scenes and there will be more in 2025.

Tasting, feeling, painting synesthesia. Eating a frozen rhubarb crumble. The taste of high summer in the middle of winter.

Another sensation painting/print. I needed to be ready for a print exhibition. This reflects my own experience of being a year round sea swimmer using an outdoor shower.

Singing rehearsals for a Green Man Festival. I wanted to create a contemporary Green Man.

Green Man backlash. The awkward story of Green Woman birthing a fully grown, in-leaf tree.

An old painting. The Nearly Home Trees on the A30. The original was lost for ages .It turned up in May.

Still a work in progress

I started experimenting with combining quick sketches and a location photograph. A book group on a quiet Greek beach.

Another work in progress. Redesigning and reconfiguring my studio has caused some sketch notes to be found and others to be lost.

This one is currently missing in action.

A photoshopped sketch note. Who knows where this one is going.

Gilding apples.Finally the apples in a string bag are finished.

Learning a new (old) skill. Printing a daffodil using the potato printing technique.

Just using up, by weaving, scraps of watercolour and typewritten quotes.

Photoshop combination of two photographs of a December weekend. Firestone Bay at dawn and Glass Bricks at Battersea Power Station.

I always think my sketches are a bit random but this annual review makes me think that they are all linked in some way.