Anyone interested in going unplugged for a while?

Working in the digital world is fine, but sometimes you want to put away the technology, roll up your sleeves, and get your brushes dirty with real pigment.

So that is exactly what I do.

I have been interested in painting, and particularly landscape painting, for some time. It is primarily a sense of place that I feel a need to address and express.

When painting, I was making a number of conflicting demands. The effect was to be spontaneous, yet highly finished. There was to be an atmospheric transparency of watercolour, with the substantial modeling of oil.

The results were not always harmonious. But I stayed with it, sometimes exhibiting, though more often not.

How I paint has evolved, and now my work resembles that original inner vision more closely than ever before. I paint in watercolour, but this may not be immediately apparent to the viewer.

Painting occupies a prominent place in my life and I expect that one day it will become the main item on my agenda of creative work.