I joined the Elgin Studio in 2016. As a professional landscape architect, my skills and techniques for sketching were developed through my university and post-graduate training. I have been sketching the natural and built environments for over forty years. In 2015, I published a monograph, Sketches, in which I shared over 240 ink and pencil sketches from Australia and overseas. While I have traditionally used ink pen and pencil (particularly Derwent pencils), the Elgin Studio has provided me with an opportunity to experiment with a variety of watercolour techniques. The following images of watercolour, pencil and ink come from the Studio’s 2018 October trip to Japan.