I cannot claim that this picture came from anything I have seen that triggered a response that I felt compelled to record. Rather it arises from the annual challenge of finding something new to use in our Christmas greeting card. Congratulations, you are getting a preview!   Since the 1970s I have done mother and child with Joseph, kings, shepherds, animals around the crib, in various combinations, a mother with a new born swaddled baby, kings on camels crossing the desert and even non...

This is a synthetic picture. It is based on what I could see, were I to look out my studio window, but via the first single line sketch I made of this about 8 years ago. I have painted St. Catherine’s Chapel twice before in the last 10 years or so, both imagined in daylight conditions. This is the moonlight version. There is another moonlit painting, “Moon over water” of two swans taking off from the moat by the Menin Gate in Ieper. This is my first “English moonlit view.” Our cat likes to...

This one has been a bit of a fight. The inspiration comes from a long held memory of sitting in my grandmother's back yard - koer in...