I am half Catalan. Catalonia is the region in Spain around and including Barcelona. It’s a place I know well but not as well as I would like. In 2007 I started to travel around the region more with my sketchbook looking at and working from the landscape.

Montserrat, considered to be the spiritual heart of Catalonia had always been a place I wanted to depict in my work. The beautiful Costa Brava was a coastline I was already familiar with. Barcelona had always struck me as a city waiting to be depicted.

The next few blog posts show some of the results from my travels this time around and on Montserrat. My aim is that one day all this energy and effort will focus in a complete body of work ready to be shown in Barcelona.

I shall do a few blog posts whilst I am here to show you what I am up to so please check in and if you have time let me know what you think. I’d love to hear your thoughts.