I am a self taught artist and started painting when I retired from business. I chose early on to use watercolour in my artistic journey, attracted by its challenges and the often magical, results that can occur with painting wet into wet.

I particularly embrace the unpredictability of watercolour as I find trying to control it saps the energy of the painting. I occasionally use ink as well as watercolour and employ various techniques to provide texture and interest

I am not drawn to photographic reality and prefer to let water and pigment do what it will, with sometimes very little intervention on my part. During 2020 I started experimenting with more expressive intuitive work and have almost entirely abandoned brushwork in favour of liquid watercolour, water spray and manipulation with bamboo pen and palette knife marks. We shall see where this leads ……