Quarto Publishing (Search Press) have recently published a very attractive new book entitled The Landscape Artist's Drawing Bible edited by Hazel Harrison. This beautifully illustrated book is full of essential tips and techniques to improve your drawing skills and demonstrate the potential of various drawing media. It is full of well illustrated step-by-step tutorials covering all aspects of landscape drawing. For ease of use it is spiral bound to ensure that it stays open at your page. It retails at £12.99.

The book has a gallery section with a selection of pictures by various artists depicting different types of landscape and landscape features. I have three full page pictures in this section as follows:

The May 2008 edition of Artists & Illustrators magazine carries a well-illustrated five page feature on me and my work. Initially, I had submitted some pictures for possible inclusion in the Portfolio section of the magazine but the editor, Lynn Parr, kindly decided that my work was worthy of a stand alone feature.

I am currently engaged in an ongoing programme of illustration work for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. In 2006 I was commissioned to provide the illustrations for a leaflet describing the industrial trail and heritage at Porthgain, on the north Pembrokeshire coast. This involved two large illustrations depicting an aerial oblique view of the area together with some supplementary drawings of buildings, boats and wildlife, etc.

This approach has now been adopted for a series of plinth-supported interpretive panels at various sites throughout the National Park and I have now completed illustrations for panels at Solva, Freshwater East, Tenby, Angle, Manorbier and Nevern. A panel for St.Davids is in the pipeline together with a variety of other locations. Each one incorporates an aerial oblique illustration of the area as the main visual feature.

I have also produced the illustrations for 4 panels for the Tenby Town Trail as well as a 16-page booklet, designed for children, incorporating a Welsh dragon character called Owain, who acts as a guide to this lovely, historic, seaside town.