10 minutes sketch in pastel of a ring tail opossum. This later became a finished painting and it won an award for being the cutest painting voted by the editor of a UK art mag for 24 hours! in 2010.

Sketch of an American Eagle - pencil

A typical street on Hydra Greece - pen & wash

Very ancient buildings - families living there, very steep pathways - this become very steep and only donkeys can traverse. Pen & wash

Around the back of Hydra Greece - really interesting pathway - which drops down into a very quaint village. WC

Quick sketches of fishermen on the wharfs comparing their catch of the day. Hydra Greece.

Nearly completed painting - two cowboys and their dog on a large rural property near Vegas US pen and Oil

Another unfinished works - pencil and oil - cats having a feed from the new catch - Hydra Greece.

coloured pencil sketch of a Spanish farmer and his donkey

Cluster of outbuildings in St Helens: pen

Same village - quiet on a Sunday morning, just early risers collecting fresh bread. Rural Italy. Pen & wash

Rural setting just outside of Sienna Italy - pen & wash

Farmer/handler on his donkey. Rural Spain coloured pencil

Poor little pack mule and donkey - the loads they carried were unimaginable. Hydra Greece

The donkey handler/farmer. Typical of all we saw in Spain - very rural - but stunning. Coloured pencil

Spain. These amazing little donkey's - the loads they carried was criminal - but not as bad as in Greece - they mainly carried straw. Coloured pencil. l

Farmer and donkey - Spain

Typical little rural farmhouse in Spain (1995); pencil