Monthly Archives: August 2019

This morning started bright and early at 6am at the calf at foot dairy with Fiona and Zoe. On the farm they keep about 40 Jersey/Red Poll cows and we herded these from marshes and up the path to the dairy to be milked. Today’s sketch is the herd en route to the dairy. I […]

Someone asked me what I was going to sketch today and I said Parsley harvesting. I saw a look of surprise and then they admitted they had never considered it had to be harvested. Certainly over the past few years I have noticed more and more fields of parsley. So very fortunate to catch The […]

Typical of East Anglia a cartpath with an ancient Oak tree covered in ivy overhanging casting midday shadows. So pleasing to see in this day and age that these trees are so treasured. This cartpath has fields on the other side of the hedge while meadowland full of grasses and flowers adjoins to the right. […]

I mentioned the other day when I drew the Galloway Belties at Carr Farm that I had also sketched their Norfolk geese. Sadly as the title suggests these are destined for our plates this Christmas. I was impressed at how well they are kept by Nicola and David. Absolutely free range and as we stood […]

The church at Covehithe was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. Much of that church is now present as ruined while inside sits the smaller church built in the 1670’s. Throughout this time it has been surrounded by farmland although increasingly the sea is stealing the land away.