Me by myself

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

(Confucius)

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life , and every setting sun be to you as its close.

(john Ruskin)

Bedruthan Steps

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

(Claude Monet)

Painting,n.:The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

(Ambrose Bierce)

Tulips

"I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move".

(Georgia O'Keeffe)

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.

(The Koran)

Silver Birch

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

(Gore Vidal)

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours.

(Marcel Proust)

I am often asked what I draw with

Photography is an immediate reaction. Drawing is a meditation.

(Henri Cartier-Bresson)

I draw like other people bite their nails.

(Picasso)

Winter Willows

There is a willow grows aslant a brook

That shows his hoar leaves in glassy stream.

(William Shakespear. Hamlet)

Willows whiten, aspens quiver

Little breezes dusk and shiver.

(Tennyson. The lady of Shalott)

Lydia

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

(Latin Proverb)

At the touch of a lover everyone becomes a poet.

(Plato)

Winter Oaks

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

(Thomas Carlyle)

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. 

(Henry David Thoreau)