I am an oil-painter with a particular interest in figure and en plein-air painting.
Whenever possible I like to paint in the open air, directly in front of the subject.
This, I think, gives my work a vibrancy and vitality sadly lacking in much of studio
painting. In fact, I disapprove of studios. Some one once said that a brush stroke
in the field is worth twenty in the studio, and my own experience makes me heartily
agree with this. When I started painting I think the thing that first attracted me
was Ruskin's exhortation that all men, as part of their morning salutations, should
go out and paint a picture of the sky. This sounded like a very nice thing to do,
so I decided to give it a go, and I've not really stopped painting since.
