I have painted in watercolour for over forty years, inspired by the natural world around us and especially the big landscapes and seascapes of Britain’s wild places. Watercolour is so good for conveying mood, perhaps above all in skies. Since moving to a small village close to the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, I have also become fascinated by the challenge of painting wildflowers and meadow grasses as well as local scenes. My present focus tends to be either the “very big” or the “very small” – two extremes of visual experience, each charged with its wonder and power to rejuvenate the spirit.

Two of my favourite quotations:

“The landscape is not seen for itself, but as a commentary upon the human condition, as a speculation upon the tension between order and disorder” – J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)

“Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

My work has been exhibited widely including the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and many local exhibitions. I held my own exhibition of Cotswold landscapes at the Colston Gallery in Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 1984.

You probably know that modern technology makes possible comparatively cheap limited-edition prints or cards from original works of art. I never do this, nor will I attempt to “copy” a picture or photograph. Every painting shown here is an original watercolour, never to be repeated, reproduced, or copied – at least, not by me!

The paintings displayed here are divided into three groups:
·Gallery 1 Landscapes of the English West Country including Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.
·Gallery 2 Wildflowers, grasses, and local scenes “Close to Mendip”.
·Gallery 3 Landscapes of the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

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