Watercolour paints have always been my preferred choice of medium. Working from life as I like to, watercolour pans in a tin box are easily portable and with just a small selection of different size brushes, a watercolour pad and a jam jar of water you have the makings of a sensitive, translucent painting wherever you might be.
I have always loved looking at watercolour paintings by other artists, trying to work out how they were created. From the extreme detail of Sark artists such as William Toplis to the paintings of the ‘Great Age’ of British watercolours in the 1800’s, the inspiration for my own work is extensive. It has to be the work of great wildlife artists such as Tunnicliffe, Ennion and Talbot Kelly to whom I owe the greatest thanks as it was their approach to watercolour which later led me to know the work of todays leading lights in the world of painting from nature. Some of these I have been lucky enough to meet and work alongside.
The images in this section are watercolour paintings which are already in private collections around the world.
