Drawing this Scots Pine for my Bilberry Wood article makes me realise that I’d love to make a return visit to Speyside. My summer and Easter breaks as a volunteer warden at the RSPB osprey reserve at Loch Garten were where I really got into the sketchbook habit.
It was a contrast to the rest of the year at art college, latterly in London but I feel that I learnt as much wandering around the Caledonian pine forest with my sketchbook as I did back in the studio in South Kensington.