Welcome to my new blog and thank you for calling in! I hope you will respond and contribute to the various jottings, musings, quotations, aphorisms, ramblings and reminiscences that will find their way onto these pages.

Sometimes I will try to explain my methods in the hope that this may help those who have travelled less far on their artistic journey than I have.

I will also try to offer some pointers on such matters as composition, palette, equipment, travel and even occasionally matters unrelated to my obsession with painting!

B the way the photo was not achieved by diving through a painting like a circus artist! It was achieved by a photographer named Major Steadman who is clever with photoshop!