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Home made pigment

I’m a very lucky to have a wonderful friend who made me some watercolour paint from the rocks close to her home. She named it Branscombe Brown for the Branscombe Mudstone Formation which was the source of the pigment.

Ginkgo biloba, work in progress

This one was my first attempt. It’s a Ginkgo biloba leaf. The colour of the paint is reminiscent of the autumnal colour of the leaf.

Imagined reconstruction of an ammonite

This painting is an imaginary ammonite, bobbing about in a Triassic sea whilst the sediments that were to become my paint settled on the lake beds of a distant land.

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PalaeoArt

Carboniferous Fossil Plants

These images of Carboniferous plants were used as part of a pamphlet which I wrote for the South Wales Geologists’ Association. These were used at events to help children understand fossils that they find at out-reach events organised by the group

Sphenopteris, Pteridophyte, Lepidodendron and Calamites (water colour)
Overviews of the pamphlet


  • Fossil Fish
  • Ammonite
A selection of pen and ink and graphite images created for books. The first are examples of Devonian aged jawless fish, next are reconstructions of belemnites and last are a couple of ammonites and crinoids attached to a log, floating in a Jurassic sea.