One of my favourite artists outside the New Forest, I was thrilled to hear that Gordon Close's online exhibition at the Old School...

The arrival of snowdrops always seems to be a turning point. Artist Sven Berlin would say we could visit 'when the snowdrops have...

Time to catch up! Our Sven Berlin website has kept me busy this month. Now it is up and running, here’s some of the moments that I’ve...

Artist Rod Hague, the subject of my book Contrasts, has chosen his painting Fishing Smack as the subject of his first piece for our Blog....

Take Three Ponies, Christopher Charman's account of the pony trek he undertook in 1958 with his wife-to-be Kate, includes this wonderful...

Our new Christopher Charman book, Take Three Ponies, has arrived! This story of Christopher and Kate’s 1958 500-mile pony trek from...

Today, 5 years ago, Sven Berlin's White Buck carving arrived in Godshill in the New Forest. This is the team that saved it from...

Been thinking how important it is to remember, especially in lockdown. In 2018 we travelled to India, Nagaland and Burma (Myanmar)...

This powerful Sven Berlin drawing of a stallion's head from 1958 is presumed to be of Spotlight, a huge and characterful Appaloosa horse...

Order your copy now! Our new publication, written by Christopher Charman of the Godshill Pottery in the New Forest will be arriving very...

This entertaining film, an interview with John Paddy Browne, whose poetry book Not Thinking Straight is available from our Book Shop, has...

We saw the beech leaves fall: A moment from a poem by John Paddy Browne.

Our walk may have been in the rain but finding these stoical ponies amid the gorgeous autumn ferns was a visual treat. Perfect match...

Juanita Casey's favourite adage: "Add life to your days, not days to your life"

Sven Berlin's pencil drawing Horse & Rider sent us looking through our photographic archives.

Our walk yesterday took us over the little wooden bridge that has always inspired me... Millersford. It really is a 'pooh sticks' kind of...

Timeless Man, the biography by Sonia Aarons of artist Sven Berlin.

Here is the review by John Paddy Browne of Rod Hague Contrasts. Many thanks, John for such an insightful contribution. #RodHague...

Snippets from a review of Rod Hague Contrasts

Had to capture and share our cherry trees before the leaves fall.