I have never been a one for exhibiting my work because I never had the time or the money. Although I did once in 1992 at a place called Walton in Cheshire, where I sold a watercolour of some boats to another artist. In fact the largest percentage of my work has been sold directly off my easel: working that is, to commission.

 

Over the years I have developed a very rapid approach to painting. Essentially because I like to capture something of the mood of my sitters the moment they sit down. That in a way, has influenced my approach to landscapes too. In fact the weather can change so quickly, and dramatically in Britain I tend to paint the image in my mind before I commit myself to canvas so as not to lose that first impression I had of my subject.

 

More recently however, owing to circumstances beyond my control I have decided to paint more from my studio, with a view to going to exhibition eventually. I am concentrating more on my contemporary work, to free my mind. Not that it makes the business of painting any easier. Especially not from the point of selling, or for that matter its execution, but because I love exploring the potential to create paintings I had no preconceived notions of before. Allowing me to bring to the fore all that I have learnt and experienced over the years, into practice. I am leaning towards greater and greater abstraction for this reason in an attempt to furrow a small but more important path for myself.