Watercolours


	Watercolours are a particularly British sort of medium and I�m hardly a master of them. When I stretch paper, it cockles., and when it doesn�t, some pillock is sure to fold it or spill coffee on it. I do love working with the watercolours though; the translucency of the wash and the brightness of the paper are everything, and the tonality the medium affords lends itself to painting all sorts of subjects.

This is a bakers shop which existed in Paris at the end of the 19th century. I painted it as a study in perspective.

This is H.M.S. Victory, Admiral Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1804. I used pictures and a model to get this dolphin's eye view. I don't think I'll specialise as a marine water colourist although I don't think this will be the last ship I paint....

This is the living room of my old appartement in Fougeres, which was centrally heated. I laid the carpet and papered the walls myself.

H.M.S. Victory, 2001

The Living Room in Rue Abbe Joly.

The Bakers Shop, August 2001.

HMS Victory

2001.

The Bakers Shop in Paris. August 2001

I associate this landscape with Princess Diana although I haven't a clue why!

A Peculiar English Landscape. 2001.

I suppose everybody wishes they had a lot of bread, but sometimes just enough is plenty.

This baker shop looked like so many others in France. I miss France a lot. I liked living there, and good bread is one of the things I miss most. You can buy French bread here but the price is exorbitant.

Watercolour, 2001.

It was 35 degrees into the mercury on the day we redecorated the flat......

Rue Abbe Joly

Watercolour, June 2001.

I can feel a chill breeze upon my cheek and taste clean air in my lungs in this landscape.

English Landscape. Watercolour 2001

I always associate this with Princess Diana, possibly due to the location, a landscape suggested by a scene on a television screen.


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