Late February's nature journaling page. I am currently working for two days a week at Green Futures in Grimsby, a 3.5-acre site that's run mostly by volunteers with a woodland and nature walk. I love this place, I volunteered here years ago when my son was little, and now I'm back I want to document what's growing over the course of a year in my sketchbook. My nature journaling is normally inspired by my garden, or the beach near my chalet on the Humberston Fitties, so I'm

On Saturday 7 March 2026 I was working with artist Anna Bean and Our Big Picture 's Saturday morning art club on the last of my engagement workshops around Grimsby's mounds and marshes. This activity involving creating an island and then a collaborative mural has been really popular with children, and it's been a great way to tell my stories about the marshes and how we moved Grimsby's river. This session fitted in well with the children as they are working with Anna on a fut

Some of the photos, research and illustration from my We Are Marshy project is up at the Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby. Some of my We Are Marshy Folk research has gone up at the cafe in the Fishing Heritage Centre . I've been working with Louise and Dave for several years now and I'm always happy when my work is up in their brilliant centre. I did an artist in residence there a while back and it was great to be able to draw the exhibits and learn more about the fishing i

A large-scale piece inspired by a canoe trip on the Freshney. One of the things that I have really enjoyed about this We Are Marshy Folk project is the large-scale collage and calligraphy brush pieces I created after some of my field trips. They capture a sense of place for me in a way that a plain sketch wouldn't have done, for example in the ripples of sunlight on the water and the marsh irises along the banks. I hope to do more of these pieces in the future, as I also enjo