I’m making this the main site for Milan’s work, and this is the new address for it.

Watch this space …

For fifteen days, Milan drew in pen and ink,

and seven of us cooked and ate and drank,

and laughed and told stories and basked in the sun,

and gazed at the beauty of the garden and of the old building,

and of the valley of la Bonnette beyond.

On the sixteenth day, Milan added colour to one of his pictures.

La Barrière, mixed media on paper, 38 x 56 cm

This time two years ago it was hot and sunny weather for our visit to the harbours and fishing villages of East Fife with Janet Robinson.
Milan worked on drawings which he developed into a series of  Coasts and Harbours from different parts of the British Isles, some of which are here

Last weekend we went to Gresgarth Hall Garden.  We aim to go there about three times a year, and especially in May.

Here are some of Milan’s paintings on Gresgarth subjects from the last two years.

Milan’s portrait, The History Men, which was selected for the 2015 BP Portrait Award exhibition, is now at The Ulster Museum, Belfast, until 12 June, 2016. Having been on tour for a year in London, Scotland and Belfast, in July it will finally return to Lancaster, and into the possession of Kay Schiller, the ‘history man’ on the right of the picture.

In February – March 2016, Milan was in Western Australia and wherever we went, he took A5 pieces of watercolour paper, and drew in pencil. In the evenings, he painted them.
Here’s a selection of 15