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I did this small illustration of Mt Ruapehu as seen from Queen's Park, Whanganui in mid-summer. In the foreground, Kowhai Park and its...

I found this old notebook full of poems I liked when I was a young man. I suppose it's inevitable that all of the writers are now dead....

I always wanted to design postage stamps but never got asked to, not in France, not in New Zealand. Maybe it's too late now; who sends...

...for a painting that never happened. I never knew what to think of this sketch of a track I loved to walk, near the village of...

It's amazing what you find in the deepfreeze. In this instance, a faucon hobereau (hobby) and an épervier d'Europe (sparrow hawk). Too...

Draw a pedestrian a day, that was the idea. But I am starting to lag already. But be warned, I am still lurking... No point to this...

Go to poppycards.co.nz for a look at these cute little cards featuring my drawings of some of New Zealand's most familiar birds (tui,...

Another illustration from my years in France. Mahaut was a noblewoman who got lost in a swamp while hunting. She spent the night beset by...

I ended up including this rapid sketch (3 minutes) of a Maori totem in the Whanganui i-site mural, because as a general rule the more...

No pretty illustrations this year. Instead, nostalgia – a collection of sketches done in cafés over the years, often while waiting to get...