…. A whole bunch of new drawings and more to come …. having great fun with these, dipping in  and around lot’s of memories from the cycle tour ….

 

These first two are from our cycle tour of Eire – Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai The drawing is made of several pages from the same sketchbook attached and the drawing folds up into the sketchbook. This was a Moon lite walk along the beach close to where we were wild camping and the wreck is of the schooner ‘The Sunbeam’ built in 1860 and wrecked in a storm in 1903

 

Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai Graphite and graphite wash ink and pencil on paper 27 x 104 cm 2023

 

Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai Graphite and graphite wash ink and pencil on paper 27 x 52 cm 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…. Here is a link to my youtube channel for a short video of one of my many drawing books ….

 

 

‘Theia Implied’ oil on canvas 195.5 x 96.5 cm 2022 £3400

 

…. From Hofn we continued East towards the Eastfjords …. pausing briefly to enjoy the view of where we have cycled from ….

 

…. The weather was amazing though chilly…. and we were about to travel through our first tunnel …. just 1.3 km long

 

…. pausing again before heading for the first tunnel ….

 

 

 

…. After the tunnel we found ourselves in yet another stunning location …. It was like this everyday, one stunning view after another. Iceland quickly began the most spectacular ride of my life …. everyday I was simply lost for words …. this will not be our last visit,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A beautiful day heading along the South coast to the East Fjords

 

 

A huge lagoon with an amazing number of  Swans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wild camp

 

Stuðlagil – basalt canyon ….. WOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A slow and developing problem we had was the wear on Aaron’s rear tyre, we had already used the spare and we were already commited to cycling into the center of Iceland. Well we had the ability to repair if necassary so we deciced to push on and moniter the tyre

 

With the East Fjords and Stuðlagil now behind us and with 10 days worth of food added to our bike we rose fairly early packed and with great excitment left Stuðlagil basalt column canyon and headed …. with a little trepidation …. to Askja, we had no idea if we could do this part of the tour no idea if our choice of equipement was up to the task, we new we had tough cycling ahead of us all off road all without back up, we had some spares some tools and we knew that finding water was not going to be an issue at all. there are notices in most if not all campsites that the water from all the rivers and streams and waterfalls is perfect for drinking so we has no worries and no need to carry extra supplies of water. Still this was going to be a full on adventure with no shops no convenience shops or bike shops garages anything like that at all. We were so excited for this….. the only concern was Aaron’s rear tire we had already used the spare …. but we did have the ability to repair the tire if necassary …..