What a treat to have two weeks painting in Cornwall and The Cotswolds. Beautiful little villages, quaint stone buildings, historic old fishing ports and, amazingly, fantastic weather!

Rowing Boats – Stratford_Upon_Avon

Arden Hotel

 Early morning – Cotswold country side

Painting in a meadow – Stow-on-the-Wold

Hobbit door – Stow on the Wold

Cotswolds – thatched roofs and stone walls

Horse trail through the woods

Castle Combe

 Painting at Dartmouth Harbour

Dartmouth

Dartmouth as the tide goes out.

Ploughed fields and hedges

Painting on the jetty at Polperro

Polperro Harbour

Fishing boats – Polperro

Mevagissey Harbour

This beautiful old fishing boat was to be our painting subject, but the thought of being scrutinised by 20 painters was too much. She sailed off just as we were about to start!

Clouds over Mevegissey

Small boats ferrying visitors to St Michael’s Mount at high tide.

St Michael’s Mount

Painting from the Hoe, Plymouth – From here, Sir Francis Drake watched the Spanish Armada drift past the mouth of the harbour as he finished his game of bowls.

Dining in Plymouth

Plymouth moped

Plymouth Prawn