painting to entertain, inform and inspire
This is to wish you a sincere Merry Christmas and to copy my latest newsletter for those unable to receive the News Letter from me, 
Some of you will not have received my email Christmas card and new Christmas News letter, copy below.
Reasons for this include bounced and blocked emails (more on that below).
The Internet can be bizarre, I’d had a reply from Robin Knox-Johnston, star of my “Roaring Forties” painting, then got an, INVALID RECIPIENT message re the address!
A second social event at Itzac ? I have landscape painted many times around here as you can see from my website, this day was purely social.
The village of Itzac is the place to be?
Today we of Itzac celebrated the “Inauguration du Moulin de Trottevielle”.
Your patience please?
Je change l’adresse de ma maison et donnez vous l’adresse nouvelle ici.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been moving house.
Here is my new address.
The Flying Scotsman has as a result of Mike Jeffries comments had a a re appraisal of the painting and some re working, specific replies to points raised listed below and may be of wider interest to artists.
The remarks have also underlined a serious problem I have here at Itzac; the studio space is tooooo small for paintings over 16” x 20”.
I need a larger studio ASAP but where, anyone want an artist in residence?
Christmas Eve is at least as big here in the remote forested North Tarn as Christmas Day. 
Normally because of my back ground and being single, I treat Christmas Day as just another marine painting working day, not this year…
And the best way to move around the Tarn at present remains a 4 x 4 or …
I never thought I’d wish for an energy guzzling 4 x 4
but faced with having to drive tomorrow…
Marine prints and marine painting back on the agenda, see the list below?
At last I am able to again accept offers of exhibitions!
Despite and because of the severe weather making roads all but impassable and much other activity difficult, I have finally catalogued the framed marine prints here. 
One at least is still missing, where is it?
The long drive North from Itzac and my first experience of cold wet misty weather since last April…
Happily the first night was spent with very good friends who have a house in Morbihan, vallee de Villaine near Redon and in that house was a warm welcome and an open fire.
Today I have finished the drive at Roscoff, Rosko in the Breton language. 
