The latest work completed this month is this watercolour portrait, Mature Reflection, based on preparatory work made from life at the Charles Reid workshop last year.

We are now half way through the Spring/Summer workshop schedule and with (at the time of writing) only four places available across the remaining workshops it is time to publish the Autumn programme.  Dates will be posted here in early May.

This  month I am delighted to be associated with the latest CD release by Lullaby Babies.  These personalised, limited edition CDs are individually recorded incorporating the name and details of your own baby.  The latest issues feature one of my baby portraits, Sleeping Baby III, on the front cover of the CD case.  For more information on these lovely lullabies please visit Lullaby Babies .

A new addition to the gallery is this Celtic Shamrock - just in time for St Patrick's Day. It is a larger version of the design on a small ACEO (art card) I painted some time ago.  In response to several requests this piece is also available as a limited edition print.

I have some great follow-up news from the 'Take Three' exhibition held in November and December.  I am delighted to say that two of the pieces shown there by Mark Azopardi have subsequently been selected by the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours for their prestigious Annual Exhibition (Mall Galleries, London, 20 March - 5 April 2008).  Well done, Mark!

The first completed painting of the year is this portrait of a very well-known character in our local community, though it is rare to see him like this without his flat cap.  Geoff popped into the Village Meeting Room while I was working there one day to have a cup of tea and take shelter from the rain that was preventing him carrying out his street sweeping duties (a job very much appreciated by everyone as he keeps the village looking beautiful) - so I took the opportunity to fulfil the promise I had made months ago to paint a portrait to keep an eye on his wife when he's not there.