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I first started using acrylic paint when I was studying at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art & Design.  The Btec Higher National Diploma course in Natural History Illustration gave me a good grounding in the techniques of painting both in watercolour and acrylics or oils.  Days would be spent in the countryside around Dorset and the New Forest sketching and painting from life, but also bringing subjects back to the studio to study in a much more detailed and ‘illustrative’ way.  The immediacy of watercolour can mean that a fleeting subject such as a bird can be captured quickly, yet acrylic paints have the advantage of being opaque and so layers can be built up more easily than with watercolour which can be very unforgiving.

	A herd of grazing Guernsey cows.  This acrylic on board was painted from the window of my studio which in the early nineties was in my Grandparent’s house, La Ladrie, Sark.  The old tin-roofed buildings have since been demolished.
	This acrylic painting depicts the natural rock arch of Port du Moulin in Sark at high tide as seen from the seaweed winch on the cliff above.
	Following a three week painting expedition with acclaimed bird artist John Busby to the Galapagos Islands, this acrylic of a Marine Iguana was a studio piece done from my sketches and photographs.  The painting was exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London for the annual Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition in 1999.
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