Just amazed to see early morning mist today, feel that slight nip in the air and discover that spiders have woven their webs everywhere...

While archiving some of the ephemera relating to Sven Berlin recently I started reading his Notes on the Experience of Drawing for Young...

Take Three Ponies and Cycling Tales, by Christopher Charman are in the news...

So said Christopher Charman as he wrote optimistically about the demands of cycling in the Slovakian Tatra National Park in 2002. Cycling...

Christopher Charman's new book relating his cycling adventures overseas is now at the printers and copies will soon be available. Here's...

Just been thinking about all the cooking I’ve been doing throughout lockdown and how it was getting just the tiny bit wearing. Not sure...

Sven Berlin often tried to help other artists and when he met Cornish naive artist Mary Jewels in 1946 he wrote an article for Horizon...

March has flown by! And here we are in 'summertime' with all the glory of Easter flowers. The daffodils are from the field and the...

One of my favourite artists outside the New Forest, I was thrilled to hear that Gordon Close's online exhibition at the Old School...

The arrival of snowdrops always seems to be a turning point. Artist Sven Berlin would say we could visit 'when the snowdrops have...

Time to catch up! Our Sven Berlin website has kept me busy this month. Now it is up and running, here’s some of the moments that I’ve...

Artist Rod Hague, the subject of my book Contrasts, has chosen his painting Fishing Smack as the subject of his first piece for our Blog....

Take Three Ponies, Christopher Charman's account of the pony trek he undertook in 1958 with his wife-to-be Kate, includes this wonderful...

Our new Christopher Charman book, Take Three Ponies, has arrived! This story of Christopher and Kate’s 1958 500-mile pony trek from...

Today, 5 years ago, Sven Berlin's White Buck carving arrived in Godshill in the New Forest. This is the team that saved it from...

Been thinking how important it is to remember, especially in lockdown. In 2018 we travelled to India, Nagaland and Burma (Myanmar)...

This powerful Sven Berlin drawing of a stallion's head from 1958 is presumed to be of Spotlight, a huge and characterful Appaloosa horse...

Order your copy now! Our new publication, written by Christopher Charman of the Godshill Pottery in the New Forest will be arriving very...

This entertaining film, an interview with John Paddy Browne, whose poetry book Not Thinking Straight is available from our Book Shop, has...

We saw the beech leaves fall: A moment from a poem by John Paddy Browne.