Hello everyone, I hope you are all well. I have been planning a big update post but I am afraid all miniatures are on hold again. Gemma and Vigo have a new brother. We have named him Remo Christos. Remo and Vigo were always our favourite names for boys, and Christos is in honour of one of the doctors who did so much to try and save Vigo  I will eventually be back to Blogger, but with a young toddler and a newborn free time is non existent. Big hugs to all Giac P s. I keep visiting your blog's, but blogger does not let me comment... It keeps saying I am logged off even though I si ..read more

  Hello everyone,   I hope you are all doing well. I am still waiting on some candelabra for the table, but since it has been a while since my last post, I thought it was time to present the banquet hall to you. The room measures 24 inches wide, 39 inches deep and 18 1/2 inches high. The design was inspired by my favourite architect, Robert Adam.  The colour palette was inspired by winter. The blues remind of nice winter days, and the metallic platinum paint I highlighted the details with makes me think of ice. The white was perfect to make the architectural elements ..read more

  Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well in these crazy time. I have been away for a long time, but I have been trying very hard to create a new normal. I took 2 months off work and during that time I would fall to pieces the minute I was not doing something, so I spent a lot of time working on my miniatures while trying to make sense of everything...still having a hard time with that one. Today, I present to you one of the rooms I was able to create, The sculpture gallery. This space was difficult to plan out. It measure 39" x 12" and 18"high and opens to the banquet hall ..read more

 Hello my friends, Thank you so much for all your prayers and best wishes for Vigo. He put up a formidable fight, but his sickness was also a strong enemy. Vigo died peacefully in our arms on October 24th.  This summer, when we had all the time in the world Today, our last hours ..read more

 Hello my dearest friends, I hope you are all doing well during these crazy times. I have been away far too long but 2020 has not been a kind year. I have not worked on my miniatures, so this is not a mini related post. Over the years your good wishes and prayers have helped me get through some tough times, so I thought I would turn to you all again. Last November Jo was diagnosed with cancer. He was operated in January and has made a complete recovery. A week later, just before the end of my parental leave, my employer of 12 years informed me that my position was eliminated. It was a ble ..read more

Hello my dearest friends, I hope you are all doing well. How I have missed your blogs and commenting on your work, but fatherhood is most wonderfully time consuming. I get about 30 minutes of miniature time a week which is why I have not posted for a while, but I did manage to finish a remodel of the gallery.  Originally this was an art gallery at the top of the stairs: Since I am planning a sculpture gallery next to the banquet hall and the décor of the room was exactly the same as the Tudor hall and the entrance, I figured I could use the space in a more interesting way. I am ha ..read more

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. It has been such a long time since I have posted on my blog or left a comment on any of yours that I thought I would stop by and say hello. I did not make it to the miniature show this year, but I had planned on picking up a project I commissioned from Karl Blindheim. He was nice enough to mail it to me after the show. I asked him to interpret the sculpture of the Townley Greyhound from the British Museum. I could not be happier with Karl's masterpiece! I asked him not to paint it so that I can faux marble it when the new sculpture gallery o ..read more

Hello everyone, It is with an insanely happy heart that I must tell you that I will not be working on miniatures for a while, because I will be busy changing diapers. Jo and I have a son. We got a call one day at 1:30 in the afternoon saying there was a healthy baby boy waiting to come home with us. At 3:30 pm, we were holding him in our arms. We named him Vigo. We got him when he was 16 and a half hours old. He is perfect and I am still in amazement at just how much I love him. I thank you all for your incredible support and best wished through the years. It was a long and heartbreakin ..read more