Life for an artist, living in a pueblo in Country Spain, close enough to a medium sized city, to not feel cut off from the world ..this has to be paradise for work.

Time for peaceful thought and dream of what is possible! Time to have unbroken time at the canvas, the wh...

 Life in 19th Century Spanish pueblos was certainly busy. The roles of both men and women could be seen through the eyes of this exhibition in Castilsabas Spain.

Water storage is born from waters draining from surrounding mountains. The lower areas produces crops of grain and cereals as a result of this water

For those who are followers of the Italian RAI television series, Inspector Montalbano, surely would have enjoyed Porto  Empedocle in Sicily. Several bars and restaurants here were named Vigata after the make believe town which was the setting for this television serie...

 Here in Palermo, capital city of Sicily, I was surprised by the atmosphere of the city. On touring the city I found it charming. Yes, like all cities it has areas that could be so much better for living conditions and cleanliness, but the overall impression was very p...

The International art fair in Madrid housed 200 galleries from 14 countries  and showed an expectedly good mix of work. Argentina was featured country and south American art is being well recognised

Above Beautiful  paint texture, metal sculpture like a school of fish a...

The Reef has been an area of artistic interest since I began painting, appearing as a follow on to my first exhibition, back in 2000 on Oceanic Waters. 

Now in front of the fans and coolers, new things are happening to my art. I am turning to assemblage or sma...

The Cherry Picking/ Eating Season has just drawn to a close.  This year there were quite a few trips 

to a friend"s orchard and picking as the ripening continued, kilos at a time. Our friends and neighbours benefited greatly from our excursions. I have never eaten...

 Some further examples of the work of the Granada , Spain, based street artist who fills the streets with the colour of humanity... Raul Ruiz.

There is a Festa for every occasion here in Spain, birthdays, saints days (ie every day), village and town patrons days, snail season, Easter parades for a week...it goes on and on!

This time it was out to another country location for another group gathering for the C...