Portraits of a succulent

Botanical, Mexico, Sketch

During lockdown I haven’t been able to people-watch and hence, people-sketch… but the shapes of plants on my balcony are almost as interesting!

Courtyard plants in Oaxaca

Botanical, Mexico, Sketch

During a recent visit to Oaxaca I sketched these plants in the courtyard of the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO). It’s a beautiful space where people were working and reading… a couple of sketching tourists fit right in.

Pencil drawings of potted plants.

A walk in the woods

Botanical, Britain, Sketch

Some sketches from the Forest of Dean. Perhaps I’m the only one this fascinated by the curve of the fallen tree trunk.

Forest of Dean 1

An interesting fallen trunk


A curved fallen tree trunk on the forest floor.

…this is what it looked like in real life.


Moss and creatures

And a close-up!