https://www.alexandermackenzie.net/artists-statement daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://www.alexandermackenzie.net/land-and-cityscapes daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059833-XHRS13614348632U26WV/Cape+Cod.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Cape Cod Cape Cod is a stretch of American coast land populated by the wealthy and wannabes. It has all the blues of Summer and all the bustle of holiday. The sea looks out to forever, to islands only for the rich, the tide is ever-present and its presence commanding. You are never out of earshot of marine majesty and the crush of pebbles by expensive bronzed feet. 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Mixed media on canvas 5x4ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059746-SXC5NADXG0V8OOQB6JWN/Edinburgh+Train+Station.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Edinburgh Train Station Mixed media on canvas 5x4ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059761-7VNAWU2ASX2N6VT6YQ8L/Broken+Morning.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Broken Morning When walking, a chill might get your back and you get a living sense of how frail we all are: even our bones are breakable in the wrong wind! The elements shape each other from collision, erosion and constant friction, as do we. We can wonder how to describe colours or remember forms when a wind picks up and everything, no matter how rocklike, is open to being broken. This painting is about such a morning. Mixed media on canvas, 2x2ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059790-H051DDWTWRA2V7C3SE80/Far+Away.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Far away One of the great things about living by the sea is that apart from making you feel brave there was often a sense of enormity beyond words. The whole sky I was seeing was just a tiny fragment of the whole sky in the world, the sea barely a cupful compared to the seven seas and each breeze rolling pebble, not even measurable compared to the rock face of the earth. At these times it is possible to feel far away from the ground underfoot and the horizon that has no end. Mixed media on canvas, 2x2ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059860-XBT32C33SDLCOLC6AAU3/Festival+City.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Festival City Mixed media on canvas 5x4ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059875-YWFZ9VYLL1JH6BUWZVRO/Newhaven+Early+Morning.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Newhaven From a certain perspective each rooftop is like the totem of the home beneath it, a flag to direct the traveller and wayfarer to a fire and some company. Edinburgh is built upon people living over other people in high rise tenement block and in smaller scale mews, where the chintzy and olde worlde rub shoulders. Early in the morning the light from the little windows reminds us that there is conversation happening and birds waiting for bread, late night morning stragglers meet early first ups and both enjoy coffee together before going their criss-cross ways. Newhaven in a little part of criss-cross Edinburgh overlooking the sea and idling secret hopes of new adventures waiting to come in on the tide. Mixed media on canvas, 2x2ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059804-6DDAH4GB22F2E8AOYCB1/Newhaven+Harbour.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Newhaven Harbour I lived across the street from the harbour where huge sailing vessels came into town casting waving ripples over everything on the way. When my son was very little I would walk early in the morning before sunrise and see a palette of colours in the wind and the water and the walls that would not be found at any other time of day. The passion of midnight would find the break of day and trouble it awake. Mixed media on canvas, 2x2ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797059819-99J7YX9I6W9Y2XNK6NLO/Ptuj.jpeg LAND AND CITYSCAPES Ptuj Some time ago I found myself travelling through the oldest town in Slovenia, Ptuj (quaintly pronounce ‘ pit-u-ee’ ) and was struck by the ancient corridors and courtyards that mark out its territory. Doors as big as the side of a ship open into walkways littered with pots and anvils, strange flowers that grow in the dark and islands of colours brought alive by the sunshine sprinkling the old town. Mosaics and walls painted like wallpaper design brought alive the custodians that stood for tradition mixed with novelty everywhere – no ordinary street amid a humdrum of passageways and closed yards. At any point you could expect Ali Baba to tumble upon you and find thieves hiding in great cauldron jars along the river way. 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That and the ineffable of course. 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I took the topmost room that had a balcony out into the roof where the wind swirled and howled and a place I would watch the sun swim into the sunset and rise again in the watery dawn. No matter how wild the night before, the dawn always brought with it a sense of calm, a promise of a newness no matter what had been before. Watercolour, 455 x 420 mm including frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797065873-KWNUG5DKOBA6M9W7SDNU/South+Africa.jpeg WATERCOLOURS South Africa South Africa is all about big. Big people, big weather and big game plains. Even the snail is as big as your hand. But there is no one in a rush in this big heat. Jugs of lime water and aloe offer fresh cleansing drinks, the shade says ‘stop right here and listen’ and always someone is doing a menial task as though they were sweeping for royalty. The world is divided between those that have peace bought by huge barbed wire security with threats of shooting trespassers, and those with absolutely nothing knowing the peace of wandering the sidewalks free to sit in the company of others sharing an apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797065859-2T52K2UAJVI6O5JELSE4/Summer+Shore.jpeg WATERCOLOURS Summer Shore Watercolour, 510 x 450 mm including frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797065721-94C0M5DD72IFT3TWADRA/Venice.jpeg WATERCOLOURS Venice This small island made up of a hundred tiny islands brings out mesmerising calm through its endless slips of water knocking gondolas underneath and the multitude of bridges used in some great game that the gods play instead of chess to get travellers lost and win points. 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Once found the treasure was cleaned up and put on view for inspection and contemplation. These days painting can do a similar thing on the inside. We painters dig and delve into places inside that sometimes reek and scare, in the hope of uncovering that treasure that has always been there. “Birdwatch” is a painting I found on such an internal excavation. Mixed media on canvas, 609 x 609 mm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073079-FHHBQJWSJSWWMQNFYEI8/Black.jpeg STILL LIFE Black Sometime we have to work and work with freeing up that which is crying out to be seen. We are often fooled by the initial ‘show off’ colours and forms that sit for a while winking with pleasure. If that works, they stay awake despite the emotional weather and vagaries of fate. Otherwise the initial gleam fades and the artist take a scalpel i.e. palette knife to the painting and enters into a battle to find the truer being within, that immeasurable countenance. I called this “Black” as I had an experience that for the first time, Black was sticking its neck out as a colour worth seeing. Mixed media on canvas, 3x3ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073206-0Q1JUTAN48VWMRZXC298/Alchemy.jpeg STILL LIFE Alchemy As painters we are alchemists. We concoct, mix, heat and muddle a range of different colours and mediums in search of our very own philosophers stone. Sometimes sparks fly and powers rage as we dabble with the gods in our search for gold. Time and again we muster the courage to go forward only to be met with wrath. Then, often at dawn I have noticed, we see a glimpse and catch it. “Alchemy” is one attempt at catching the glimpse. Oil on canvas, 510 x 510 mm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797072992-REYJ4YRXO8E1I7V6BM5R/Blaze.jpeg STILL LIFE Blaze All my life having a real fire has been such an important part of where I live. A lot happens for me around a flame. Thoughts, that never were before, arise and warm the cockles of my heart. Old issues that weigh heavy can be furnaced by the firelight and I do like a little whiskey by firelight best of all. In my more fanciful moments I imagine that when I have completed a painting it acts like firelight for viewers seeking a kind of internal warmth. “Blaze” has arisen out of a private emotional smelting of loss and hope that I hope can forge such a fire for others. Mixed media on canvas, 890 x 890 mm including frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073093-G0IG5MF5IA8OVFYU3INB/Blue.jpeg STILL LIFE Blue When travelling as I do between countries, climates, foods and others I can sometimes find myself craving the delight of a soft deepening mattress in the haze of birdsong, allowing the dignity of dreams to imagine me as a hero taking refuge in Olympia or the like. “Blue” always takes me to grandeur and the sadness of grandeur. I love how the ‘blues’ for all their long notes and cello sighing can really allow out the ghosts that might frighten you, were it not for sacred protection of knowing silence. This painting is about being such a guardian, a place of tabernacle. Mixed media on canvas, 4x4ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073179-7F695KAGKMMCDCYGBO9S/Bone.jpeg STILL LIFE Bone I was struck by how the rigidity of this form would not go away. It wanted to stay boney and ligamented. I began to appreciate it angularity and sharp edges. I imagined that if I lifted it off the canvas I could blow into it somehow and play a tune, some gypsy rough melody that would cause the listener to cry with grief at the passing of a beauty lost or become deliciously melancholic with a profound edging together of colours. Mixed media on canvas, 4x4ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073037-PMG1DKXWP6E60VCI6BJU/Delf.jpeg STILL LIFE Delf I was sitting looking at all the toy cars and trucks my toddler boy has arranged on the table top, laid out in his very own particular arrangement that might look to the onlooker as a random gathering. Yet he is very particular about what car goes where and some days he will be colour conscious and put all the white cars together or arrange the blues into a ‘conversation’. When painting “Delf” I became increasingly aware of a colour landscape coming together and know how it might seem a bit topsy turvy to the onlookers eye, yet I remain very fond of how the colour and shapes came together to play. Mixed media on canvas, 4x4ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073065-FKHFHJJOBIVW50LL0F18/Fleur+Bleu.jpeg STILL LIFE Fleur Bleu We might lose many things in life and just when we least expect it lose what might feel like the most important thing, our belief in living another day. Then, when on the brink of no return, something can come to rest on the heart – unasked for and unexpected – that lifts up hope and brings a sense of otherness beyond all logic. “Fleur Blue” is about that place of unbridled beauty, unasked for but here to witness gaiety in the face of darkness. Mixed media on canvas, 609 x 609 mm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073051-KYUR9W0WT8CG0FNSQIE4/Glass.jpeg STILL LIFE Glass This image came about after many iterations of sticking onto canvas other images and tearing them off again. The mix of paper, glues, chalk and oil paint excites me and that in itself was almost enough. I am not sure that this painting is final but it is strongly resisting my palette knife. Maybe a dream will incense me into a new wrestle with “Glass”. Sometimes I feel the red in this painting baiting me like a bull gets flustered and then charges at the red handkerchief. Mixed media on canvas, 3x3ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073150-AYTN3YUHKBFCTMRHIMXY/Kissyfish.jpeg STILL LIFE Kissyfish So when we come to the end of time and approach the pearly gates, we need to have a good excuse for St Peter, if we are not to be sent packing. He might look at me and at the end of pages of blacklisting, peer at me and say: “Why should you come in here? What have you done to deserve entrance?”. I have my answer prepared. I will take a deep breath and say “I have painted God” and produce my painting of “Kissyfish”. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 710 x 610 mm including frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073192-U42I7BUOJFTYWWZRPVDA/Lord+of+the+Dance.jpeg STILL LIFE Lord of the Dance Sometimes making a painting could be described in similar terms to cooking something delicious: take a slice of vermillion and a dash of pebbled white and mix together roughly with oil of olive green etc. The mix can be roughshod but the result is sublime and tasty beyond words. It almost assumes a life of its own and you the painter happened to be the innocent bystander that was compelled to put the mix together intuitively. “Lord of the Dance” was such a creation for me. Mixed media on canvas, 609 x 609 mm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797072961-6A585ZCTNBAUY96ZYPBL/Orange.jpeg STILL LIFE Orange It can happen, maybe as we catch the eye of someone, or notice the sound of soft bellied laughter, that a moment arises that is as sweet as ever its going to be. We can miss these moments, avoid them, steer clear of them or decide to cherish them. I think that part of the glory of getting older is not compromising these moments and instead like a water diviner seek them out with a palette knife instead of metal rods. “L’Orange” is a moment of finding sweet water. Mixed media on canvas, 609 x 609 mm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073022-YONTVC024FSVDIRL90G8/Potful.jpeg STILL LIFE Potful I love the oddity of painting flowers that do not go into a vase but rather surround it as an immanence. Flowers are magical reminders of our colourful nature. I am an artistic anarchist in the sense that I like to be work with beauty inside out so to speak and like to use flowers as ideographic symbols leading the viewer away from what they think they are looking at into a special world removed from the ordinary into feeling a little wondrous. “Potful” is about being half full. Oil on canvas, 530 x 640 mm including frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073006-H09ISI2JV6S7KNORZ79O/Royal.jpeg STILL LIFE Royal I am often amazed at how certain thing have their own majesty – even a twig might look sculptural against snow or a cat on a wall looking out evenly as a sphinx into the street. The things around the thing can assume a feeling of deity, have a royalty just by being in that particular constellation of things. Paintings too, the juxtaposition of colours set something to life that was only a moment before anonymous and by some strange inflexion of a gold hint on the light falling outside through the window, imbues a pot, a cup, a pane of glass with royal blood and we are all suddenly subservient to witnessing the ordinary majesty of being a part of the picture. Mixed media on canvas, 4x4ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797072976-GWSZT0EHOSRHHTDABYW4/Stone+Urn.jpeg STILL LIFE Stone Urn I have always thought that the stone urns that are used to feed cattle or grow hardy strong limbed plants are the chalices of nature. They are made to last forever and can only be broken by nature – a freezing ice and a baking sun will do it where heavy animals and misuse will not. The image of an urn brings with it a simple solid truthfulness that offers contact with God very differently than patented and bejewelled alter chalices. I don’t think God minds which one we use. Oil on canvas, 609 x 609 mm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073222-4GY1IPBYR0NUJF1M1MN9/Stone.jpeg STILL LIFE Stone We tend to think of stone as an irrefutable surface – something that has always been and yet if we take a bigger picture of events, stone turns to sand eventually. That which most certainly is, becomes not what it used to be and is gone. I think of still life as sort of doing the reverse – starts as a series of marks, become ingrained with a form and then assumes a life of its own, in some ways more irrefutable because it announces itself out of nothing. This painting came through the layers of painting into a thing in its own right. A painterly omphalos. Mixed media on canvas, 3x3ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073106-93YLE9FOQDZVE4B9C412/Tribute.jpeg STILL LIFE Tribute Let’s suppose there is a kingdom beyond this one we know, where instead of a ruling power there is a kind of beingness. There we might sit down together and notice the things that move us deeply within as well as without. Here we might pay tribute to the ordinary as extraordinary and the unnoticed comes into view as the very centre of what’s important. Here a vessel comes into view that we honour as the very best of one another. “Tribute” is about that story. I painted “Tribute” as I was going through a very painful breakup and I am grateful it honed my way of seeing what is important. Oil on canvas, 810 x 710 mm including frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073135-1WK3DF5GOI1F4RY8OMLY/Vase+Sketch.jpeg STILL LIFE Vase sketch Taking a chalk for a walk, enjoying the stroll and finding some curves and bellies under charcoal blending. Tale a bank page and make something strong and soft, generous and zany, something to share, sigh at or throw away – this is sketching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797073123-OI1ZUNJSM47CGGBOYVB6/Vase.jpeg STILL LIFE Vase I have always loved vases since Picasso and then Morandi introduced them to me as ways of speaking of the otherness of things. A vase in a painting is never only a vase. It can be an entrance, an opulence, a brittleness and always something else as well as a vase. For me “Vase” came into my life as I looked out from the balcony of my flat in Stroud and wondered whether I would ever be freed of my internal demons. “Vase” came to me as a promise of otherness. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 500 x 500 mm https://www.alexandermackenzie.net/this-one-elephant daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797075133-9GFIX0CZ4GYWFQD9X7N2/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1331.png THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/eff153b7-fcbe-4b4f-81e6-c3e8dab8d7af/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1330.jpg THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/f4f11ea7-e091-4dbb-a10b-65c2491aadce/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1332.jpg THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/978c02c8-7fe5-4b30-b499-bbd93b4b5e70/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1333.jpg THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/53fa1af0-b7f7-40c1-aaf8-a489a8f9b513/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1335.jpg THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/ba896244-c43b-4e8c-8337-8bf47c5663ec/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1336.jpg THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/dc861e49-a567-4c89-9cde-08c42f99b9d2/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1339.jpg THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/4d3a0c93-557a-4559-b945-afc397bd9787/EEL_051_Alexander_Mackenzie1340.jpg THIS ONE ELEPHANT https://www.alexandermackenzie.net/crafting-with-colour daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076475-XLWEEQHGZT4F73EFXW5T/2.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Hanging around with Tiny Green https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076330-XZ10VBH2PDIURZRQSMAS/3.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Magnus giving bear advice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076431-KZRMQ4GDQ23VR9ZRJ24Y/4.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Papa Bear says “hello Magnus” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076729-AFH50ZF4RCPEAVIQOLKS/5.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Magnus falls into Papa Bear’s arms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076300-RJFAG3EI1AKPDRLZA1UQ/1.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076625-O995WALC5FC3PKUCROJT/6.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Papa whispers into Magnus’ ear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076344-EAZEM79R7OHZ7EKN2LE8/7.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Setting off on a bear adventure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076462-7LXYYJUMMNQABINGWG5M/8.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR The bears are amazed at the birds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076316-VR7QM4GAJT8J5UPMRY86/9.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Every good bear needs a nap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076447-9BQCAA3M8UQC931MQ5SK/10.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR The bears fly over the birds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076547-5ETRMZK0LQ0KKBRYX2JE/11.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Oops! The bears bump into a Christmas tree https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076489-LUYTBP0IS1KQK4NZBUEJ/13.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Time to let the adventure settle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076533-Z5CUAI7EIXFVW3ZZRATF/14.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR The windy road to dreamland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076611-VAA0BU5U1VIRS7GQRPEI/15.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Magnus Bear tries out dreaming while awake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076700-ZVMZIZIIUX8U98XDZ7NU/17.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Doing what Papa Bear does best https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076371-S0WVJUPAOF7GU2ZSUG63/18.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR The Dreamascope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076386-ZFQ8M7YT8F5YVH9ML2MU/19.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR A spellbinding Spring Day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076640-SY2Q5QBWQ6U28JAMWGRD/21.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR The art of skipping stones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076668-YH3GY1D43X23GM66YN4F/22.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Bobbing in the light stream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076592-L6LS4XLF5WD01WE7IWBH/23.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Papa Bear bobs into view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076654-FGAI674HM0KFIP46SPSW/24.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Magnus Bear listens carefully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076563-YF1CMBLBVE5YZX12S4WF/30.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076742-86E61774XV5GSKDLTP1C/26.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Stretching is what a bear does best https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076267-2D3ZPYUIJREIT0GQ3XPK/Papa+Bear%E2%80%99s+big+heart+%E2%80%98hello%E2%80%99.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Papa Bear’s big heart ‘hello’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076402-6FRK1137A8EQZX3BP8K0/28.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Sharing heart secrets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076755-VQ74OF61M11W419OEFOP/Which+dream+road%2C+I+wonder%3F.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Which dream road, I wonder? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076416-KHSBGI6V8VRI0HPIKKPB/What%E2%80%99s+in+a+bubble%3F.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR What’s in a bubble? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076715-PELA20O5YAQGISOFBPWZ/29.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR The bears bring pass Peacen Dreamland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076577-1DGR2YZ077DWJ74S4NOI/31.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Christmas rules the day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076286-868ND6C1IFYLC9W0R49U/The+secrets+inside+dreams.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR The secrets inside dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076686-5WOFDT3RP5Z94G1CVBL2/Papa+Bear%E2%80%99s+big+heart+%E2%80%98hello%E2%80%99.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076357-HPOXXGIP4AKIL8QLJVHV/Papa+Bear+waits+for+Magnus+Bear+to+wake.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Papa Bear waits for Magnus Bear to wake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076520-JWUQY94MOSGNESQG7LE2/The+bears+bring+pass+Peace.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/698c38007203ad1fb5198e81/1770797076504-5TEXKV5UPQXS8Q4RJRYR/Wakey+wakey+Magnus+Bear.jpeg CRAFTING WITH COLOUR Wakey wakey Magnus Bear