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Where ever you stand on the climate change debate - you probably agree that recycling is still a good idea. Whether the globe is flat, expanding, heating or cooling, resources are always infinite. Recycle symbol made of salvaged sea glass from the beaches of the Isle of Man. Check out the sea glass collection for more like this.

I've been collecting sea glass from our beaches on the Isle of Man for a few years now - and spent a good few months scanning them all in, and organising them into repeats. This is but one of them, check out the 'sea glass' collection for more.

Watercolour drawings of cacti & succulent house plants in their little white pots.

Digital illustrations of a selection of cacti and succulents, these include, Echeveria Peacockii, Hoya Kerrii, Crassula Ovata Convoluta (Money Plant), Opuntia Microdasys (Golden Polkadot Bunny-ears), Euphorbia Horrida (?) and, Crassula Ovata ‘Gollum’

I blumming love mushrooms, they're just so unlike any other living creature. They just seem so magical.

A watercolour and pencil drawing of my echeveria peacockii - also available on a beige back ground, as a repeat pattern

A cute smiling sunshine, inspired by a Manx Gaelic nursery rhyme called Moghrey Mie Ghrian (Good morning Sunshine)

A cute smiling sunshine, inspired by a Manx Gaelic nursery rhyme called Moghrey Mie Ghrian (Good morning Sunshine)

A cute blustery wind cloud, inspired by a Manx Gaelic nursery rhyme called Moghrey Mie Ghrian (Good morning Sunshine) Also available with the manx gaelic text.

A cute blustery wind cloud, inspired by a Manx Gaelic nursery rhyme called Moghrey Mie Ghrian (Good morning Sunshine)

A cute whistling rain cloud, inspired by a Manx Gaelic nursery rhyme called Moghrey Mie Ghrian (Good morning Sunshine)

A cute whistling rain cloud, inspired by a Manx Gaelic nursery rhyme called Moghrey Mie Ghrian (Good morning Sunshine) Also available with the manx gaelic text.

A simple black and white Winter themed design of a sprig of mistletoe

A simple black and white Winter themed design of a wreath of mistletoe

Part of the Macro collection of patterns. This one is a tiny coral called Gonipora.

A trip to Kew gardens has inspired a series of images this month.

A scanning of a lino print of a sleeping tabby cat.

10 rabbits in the round, maybe they're having a secret meeting? Also available as two rabbits in a love heart,

Two rabbits huddled together in a textured black love heart.

Strangely this was my first drawing on my first day of university. Originally a lino block print.

Water-colour and pencil illustration of the detailing of the British clover flower

A flower i know not by name, but by description.

I spent 6 weeks in various allotments in England studying the fascinating structures that gardeners create out of everyday objects. The most drawn allotment was in Bucklands Hill in Maidstone, Kent. This is the third of a series of three, a possible triptych, but i feel work well as individual prints as well. It shows the Cover aspect of the title, the hodge-podge shelters that the gardeners have scrapped together to make either somewhere to keep dry when the summer rains make an appearance, or just sit and listen to the radio to get away from it all. Although, most of them i found were used for practical uses. They had perspex, glass or clear plastic fabric sections to act as a greenhouse.

I spent 6 weeks in various allotments in England studying the fascinating structures that gardeners create out of everyday objects. The most drawn allotment was in Bucklands Hill in Maidstone, Kent. This is the third of a series of three, a possible triptych, but i feel work well as individual prints as well. It shows the Compost aspect of the title, I witnessed a lot of clever ways to keep compost at the allotment. It turns out composting your waste is not as simple as just putting it in a heap and waiting. There has to be very specific ratios of dry to wet waste, or green and brown waste. If this ratio is off, the decomposition process comes to a halt. You can see in the examples that many of the bins are composed of interchangeable parts

I spent 6 weeks in various allotments in England studying the fascinating structures that gardeners create out of everyday objects. The most drawn allotment was in Bucklands Hill in Maidstone, Kent.This is the third of a series of three, a possible triptych, but i feel work well as individual prints as well. It shows the Contain aspect of the title, it shows the many different things that i observed at the allotment that the gardeners had been using to substitute the seemingly expensive pots for seedlings. They explained to me that you can use anything that is water and light tight but pierce-able so as to give drainage.

Hope you like it.

As the children's song states, Bears like to picnic. This one likes to picnic at a picnic table. but he's alone, and has no food. But as this doesn't stop a lot of children. It will not stop Picnic Bear.

Charcoal stripes make up this simple six pointed star design

Simple dragonfly with lacey wings

A collection of bird drawings from my local museum. A small selection of the birds that inhabit the island i live on.

A digital drawing of a Daisy type flower known as "black eyed susan"

Queuing is a traditional English pastime - i spent 6 weeks drawing people enjoying it.

"The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit" Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Originally a screenprint

Hope you like it.