Last week I had a fascinating time visiting the Portico Library in Manchester. Such a wonderful atmosphere, surrounded by walls of leather-bound volumes in varying states of wellbeing. Warm lightin...

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Thank you all for your lovely messages and orders! I’ll be packing up the last orders today to post out first class tomorrow, then I’ll be having a little break until the New Year to ca...

I have always loved the way my home town of Hebden Bridge shines out on an autumn night, looking cosy and snuggled in the valley, especially in the fog. Though I’m not sure the new LED stre...

‘Every Grain of Rice’ 2022 Roo Waterhouse, oil on canvas 30x60cm Are you a fan of arranging books by colour? I wouldn’t usually approve (apart fr...

‘When The Going Was Good’ Roo Waterhouse 2022 No sooner had I finished painting this new shelf portrait of vintage orange Pengui...

”Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Most excellent advice! Have you had a chance to relax ...

I cleared the last of these architecture books, featured in my recent Shelf Portrait painting ‘Architectural Heritage’, off my father’s bookshelves while I was in London last week...

A trip to Hay-on-Wye last week, with it’s plethora of wonderful bookshops full of loved and tattered books, inspired me to start on a new Vintage Orange Penguins painting. I love the early stages ...