Zephyr and Zawn

22/08/2026

Another 1st and 2nd place for the Dolphin and Galatea last night! 😱👌🏻💪🔥🔥🔥

21/08/2026

I haven’t been on here because I’ve been out there! 😅

What a beautiful summer we’ve had this year! It’s kept me very busy over the weekends and honestly I haven’t been sitting down and creating for a long time. This seems quite normal now over the summer. Great to not be ruled by social media anyway. What I have been doing is keeping a list of everything I want to draw. Eventually the pen will call me again, but for now I’m enjoying the last rays of summer ❤️🥰☀️

09/08/2026

Who doesn’t love collecting sea glass?! I’m always on the lookout for rare colours or shapes. ❤️🧡💛🥂

Be sure to check out St Martin's Beach Art for some lovely art made using sea glass found on St Martin’s 😊

01/08/2026

Flat Periwinkle shells! 🐚 🧡💛🐌 😍

They are some of the most colourful inhabitants of our rocky shores. Living amongst brown seaweeds such as bladderwrack, these tiny snails can be found in an astonishing variety of colours, including bright yellow, orange, green, brown and almost black, with many displaying bands or mottled patterns.This colour variation helps them blend into different seaweeds, reducing the risk of being spotted by predators. Slow-moving but perfectly adapted to life between the tides, they spend their days grazing on microscopic algae coating the seaweed.

25/07/2026

Clearly visible for miles around, the daymark is undoubtedly the most iconic structure on St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly.

Learn more about its story: https://bbc.in/4wR89cQ

24/07/2026

12/07/2026

It’s Atlantic Mackerel season! I love the zebra like markings they have 🥰 I haven’t been out fishing much this year which is unacceptable really considering the lovely weather we’ve been having.

05/07/2026

Sailing into Syllingar ⚔️

I’ve been doing a deep dive into Old Norse history recently, and it inspired this little illustration of a Viking longship sailing past the Eastern Isles under a full moon. The Vikings knew the Isles of Scilly as Syllingar (ᛋᚢᛚᛁᚾᚴᛅᛦ), and with the islands sitting at the western entrance to the English Channel, they would have been a familiar landmark for Norse sailors crossing between Ireland, Cornwall, Wales and Brittany. The medieval Orkneyinga Saga even records a raid on Syllingar, although it’s likely Viking crews had been passing these shores long before then. Living on St Martin’s, I often find myself imagining what it must have been like standing here a thousand years ago, watching great longships with striped sails gliding silently past the Eastern Isles on another voyage into the Atlantic. History has a wonderful way of making the landscape around us feel alive.

18/06/2026

A foggy week on the islands! 🌫️

I’ve always loved the atmosphere that comes with these foggy days. The world feels a little quieter, a little wilder, and every now and then you’ll hear the Round Island foghorn sounding off somewhere out at sea.

It might not be the sunshine visitors hope for, but there’s something undeniably magical about it.

13/06/2026

“Jaws” big ones… 🦈

An incredible afternoon spent out on the water with this magnificent basking shark spotted around the Eastern Isles by passengers aboard the Scillonian.

The sheer size of this shark was unbelievable. Despite being the second-largest fish in the world, basking sharks are true gentle giants, feeding on tiny plankton as they glide gracefully through our waters.

Moments like these are a reminder of just how special the Isles of Scilly are, with wildlife encounters that never fail to take your breath away. 😱💪❤️