Lovely to be part of Sea Pictures Gallery new exhibition Our Society Friends. It runs from March 3 to April 30 and features some fellow members of of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. View the works on show at the gallery in Clare, Suffolk or here

Great to be part of Shaun Bracey's Musical Portraits exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre. Shaun will amazingly compose a piece of music each day inspired by paintings and Jamie Randall's lovely photographs

Lovely to talk to David Nash about his Full Circle exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park for Resurgence Magazine

Ink and watercolour on canvas? Who's idea was that? I'm a good couple of miles outside my comfort zone and working on a surface that behaves completely differently to the lovely watercolour paper I normally use. The ink pools, bleeds and generally does what it wants to do. I'm getting some interestingly blotchy effects, but it's all pretty random. Still, good to push yourself every now and then isn't it?

Somebody else looking closely at the river. While I was painting the Stour for my upcoming solo show WEND: the Stour from source to sea this little beauty was darting around distracting me from my work

Scribbling at the source of the River Stour. I only recently twigged why Stourhead is called what it is. The river starts here and reaches the sea 61 miles later. Looking forward to my solo exhibition WEND: the Stour from source to sea at the Art Stable opening on June 11 2022

This little set is on show at The Gallery, Holt as part of the Harmony exhibition with other members of the RI

A scribble of the Hare and Hounds in the Lake District. Pubby perfection.

Many thanks to the lovely Sherborne Times for featuring my upcoming WEND: the Stour from source to sea solo exhibition in June this year at The Art Stable

COP26 has been, gone and been forgotten. The news cycle has moved on and the headlines it made have already become a sad and distant memory. To my mind, the oil companies, lobbyists and their friends have got away with it again. They gave us warm words about slow, long-term fossil-fuel reduction targets but we're still left with a heating planet.

If the oilmen in suits were physically setting fire to our forests there would be uproar and strenuous efforts made to stop them. But they are doing it more indirectly and subtly so that we hardly notice that it's happening. But it really is. Our woodlands are burning up and so are we. The shocking thing about the oil industry's actions is that it has known for years what the outcome of burning fossil fuels would be on the planet. Sadly, profits trump that knowledge.

These are the words written around the edges of the painting:
"ExxonMobil had a turnover of £1,069bn between 2015-2000. During the same time it spent 0.01% of that on low-carbon investments and developments. Oil and gas contribute 19,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to the planet each year. ExxonMobil is the self-proclaimed leader in carbon capture. It stores 9m tonnes of CO2 per year. That is 2% of its annual emissions of 730m tonnes in 2019. The world's oil companies invest 1% of their budgets in clean energy. They're knowingly burning us alive."

Sources: clientearth.org, The Guardian, ourworldindata.org

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