When asked what I wanted to gain from having a website - by my trusted and highly skilled website designer Phil Walton, my answer was for people to be able to view my work whenever they wished and to learn more about my past, present and future work.

He then informed me that I could actually make my site work for me, and if designed in the right way it could lead people to my work when they didn't even know that was what they were looking for. How could this by done I wondered - 'Blogging' was his answer.

Until now I have never really understood the point of a blog, why would I want to go onto the internet to read random musings posted online by members of the public (obviously if I were keen to find out more about a scientific matter or something worth while then great, but I am not sure why people feel the need to write about their lunch yesterday, or their pet canary)? For that matter why would I want to publish random musings for members of the public to read? Well I can't answer the first question, but it would seem that the more writing there is on my site about my work, the more likely my site is to be recognised by the search engines which will then gradually help make its way to the top of the pile of websites keen to get a look in. Hopefully one day I will have written so many exciting articles about my work that you will be able to type in the word 'animal' or 'painting' or 'animal painting' and behold, right before your eyes, www.veryfineanimals.com will be there to thrill and delight your visual senses!

So if there is any particular aspect of my work you would like to know more about, please let me know and before you can say 'Blogosphere' I will have produced a scintillating insight on that particular topic. Finding new inspiration for paintings has never been a problem, but finding inspiration to write about finding inspiration is a little. . . uninspiring!