T ODAY I SIT at my desk looking out at a blizzard of wild sideways-swirling-snows and paint bees and gnarled trees for an album cover commi...

A NEW DRAWING of mine ... merged skilfully by Tui into an old cracked photograph ... The Smudge Fly ... for sale here ...

W HILST EMBROILED in storyboarding the animation, I came across a review in the sunday paper about a book just published by Scholastic - Th...

T HE orla wren animation is begun! The story is gently beginning to tell itself with pencil drawings that will be moved very small distance...

T ODAY'S TALE takes us into the mind of a young girl who is not like the others, into forests and derelict mental asylums, into a villa...

F RIENDS , take a look at our new home ... a true house on wheels! A 1976 Bedford TK Horsebox, bought purely with earnings from picture sale...

H ERE IS my latest painting .. a gift for my brother and his girlfriend who have just bought their first house together. It is painted with...

T HE HERMITAGE nest is very busy at the moment ... there are sketchings and paintings and musical arrangings and animation-plannings and d...

W HEELS ON HOUSES are one of the Best Things. Here's one I made. Inside is a tale about a king who journeys to find What Really Matters...

S NEGUROCHKA , the Russian Snow Maiden is the daughter of Father Frost and Mother Spring. The legend tells that she became more beautiful wi...

F ATHER FROST or Dedt Moroz is a Siberian ice spirit who hides in fir trees deep in the forest and as he snaps his fingers, he splits and s...

T ODAY , this first day of the year I sold the first copy of Telling Stories to the Trees on etsy, and I received my first ever royalties !...

T HIS WELL KNOWN AND LOVED character has evolved nowadays into the sickly-sweet “acceptable” American Santa Claus, but he has ancient and d...

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! May 2008 bring you creative happy things and wonderful adventures... T here have been movings-about-of-things in our hou...

A DARK FIGURE from Germanic folklore, Knecht Ruprecht, meaning Knight Rupert, accompanies St Nicholas when delivering gifts and represents...

M OTHER HOLLE is a winter sky spirit of Nordic and Teutonic folklore. Also known as Perchta or Berchta, she is an old crone who presides ov...

L EGENDARY RUSSIAN OGRESS Baba Yaga, is reputed to feed on young children. She lives deep in the forest, in a house that moves round on chi...

S COTTISH MYTHOLOGY tells of a blue-faced hag associated with winter – the Cailleach Bheur. According to ancient tradition, she reappears e...