Dear Planksters, Happy spring to you all! Whilst out and about I’m always looking around for inspiration – things to draw and things to...

Dear Planksters, Today I’m reflecting on a wonderfully fat read! (You know the joy you feel when the book that you ordered is fat with...

Dear Planksters, I hope this post finds you as well as can be. I was very excited this week to receive my copy of ‘The Year I Stopped to...

Today, dear Planksters, I wanted to share with you the joy I experienced when reading about E.H Shephard, illustrator extraordinaire to...

Dear Planksters, I hope you are all doing OK during these difficult times. One comment that I’ve seen a lot on social media recently is...

Dear Planksters, Social media is wonderful for so many reasons, for authors and illustrators the likes of Twitter and Instagram can be...

Dear Planksters, I hope your week has been full of creative thought, inspiration and output! Today I wanted to share with you one of my...

Dear Planksters, How are you all? I hope you’ve had a good creative week! Today I want to share with you the two influential and highly...

Dear Planksters, This week I’m excited to be sharing a most wonderful read that I had about the one and only Shirley Hughes!! Oh my!!...

Dear Planksters, How are you faring? Well, I trust! Where does the creativity happen for you? Are you someone who is able to sketch on a...

Dear Planksters, How are you all? OK, go with me on this one… If I asked you to close your eyes and picture a green snail riding on the...

Dear Planksters, Thanks again for dropping by! Did anyone happen to catch the wonderful documentary about Quentin Blake on BBC2? Called...

Dear Planksters, Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are well! I thought that it might be interesting and possibly inspiring even,...

I was wondering how to start this blog, in the same way as you might wonder how to start a diary. Do you go with the classic, 'Dear...