I paint, I’ve always loved painting and drawing and have been on a self-taught journey of discovery in watercolour, oil and graphite for more than 60 years.
Despite jumping around the mediums from time to time I have settled into watercolour on handmade heavy cotton watercolour paper which is a beautiful medium to work with but very unforgiving !
Living in a northern suburb of Leeds gives me access to Lower Wharfedale within minutes and the Dales have always been a massive source of inspiration as well as the Lake District which is less than a 90 minute drive from here, but road trips aside its the local area that inspires my favourite subject of drawing and painting in watercolour the old stone built houses and village/town centres around here, a current project of mine is to record as many buildings as possible of the north Leeds suburb of Horsforth which is a dual challenge of art and local history research, lovely stuff !
The Horsforth Walk of Art is an annual event in July which brings together artists and performers of all genres and utilises many venues (up to 80 this year) in the historical town and now suburb of north Leeds known as Horsforth. The main hub of the weekend festival is the library on Town Street wh...more
