haha, yes Chloe, I quite agree – I’ve got a lot of sorting out the wheat from the chaff from this year’s vacation. I took lots of photos but as I’m looking through them now, there aren’t that many that will be any good to me for painting from!

Couldn’t agree with you more, creating abroad always feels like just dumping thoughts and ideas and then finishing it all up at home :)

Thanks Rob – I’m having a good-ish time, but not really for any painting related reasons – hopefully this will change with what’s left of my time away!

Thanks so much for this and apologies for not replying sooner (lack of wifi or phone signal is frustrating me, but I’m also enjoying the digital detox!)

Hi Evelyn and thanks for this, I’m pleased you like the art kit – it’s seems to be serving me pretty well at the moment! As for the books, I think they’re a bit of a mixed bag! (I’ll say more in a future post!)

Oh I know all of these feelings far too well – especially the ‘never enough time’ one! Hopefully I’ll come back with some good ideas and reference material to keep me busy for a while (and so far, apart from my sub standard sketchbooks, I don’t feel like I’m missing anything important!)