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On a recent stroll along a section of the River Wandle, I spied a kingfisher. I’ve been fortunate to see a few of these beautiful birds in the last few months – and this time we sat and watched each other for a few minutes. When I got home I wanted to capture a sense of the river, so I mixed up some shades of blue and green acrylic paint and got some A4 rough texture water colour paper ready.

I made a finger painting as I thought about how I wanted to represent the river, then I divided a sheet of paper into a rectangular pattern and using brushes this time, randomly applied the shades I had mixed.

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These works have now been sold, with a portion of the sale going to support the excellent work done by Arts Emergency. I really enjoyed painting these.

I recently cast my mind back to a few peaceful minutes spent wandering around inside a church at La Cotinière in the summer of 2015. In my head were memories of stained glass, and close at hand were some paper, ink pens and markers. A series of stained glass abstractions emerged, three each of two different colour schemes, six small artworks in all.

I enjoyed trying to make them similar, and of course even though the basic pattern is the same, each one is slightly different. On completion, I gave two away as gifts and the others have all been sold, with a £5 donation going to Arts Emergency for each sale.