I paint because I love it. I love being outside, I love the amazing views I find, I love translating them into something I enjoy painting and others enjoy looking at!
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I live in the Cotswolds, and paint mainly local landscapes, inspired when out and about walking in fields, villages and towns. I also paint scenes related to my favourite places in the UK-in particular NW Scotland ( where I have spent every summer for the past 25 years), also Wales, Devon and Cornwall.
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I still work part time , but I spend virtually all of my spare time painting/ thinking about painting/ demonstrating painting or teaching painting !
I like to sketch and paint en plein air, often finishing works or creating larger works based on sketches when back in the Studio. I have space at Studio Liney, in a wonderful old barn on a farm in Ewen, near CIrencester.
I favour oils for landscapes of land or sea in which the light and in particular the clouds demand an impressionistic approach, to allow the piece to reflect more than simply a snapshot of what is in front of me, and give the viewer a role in interpretation.
