In the summer of 2023 I decided to learn to paint. As I have a love of the outdoors and I live in a beautiful place it seemed natural to paint landscapes and I elected for watercolours as my medium. I had no idea what I was doing but steadily over the course of the summer I learned the strokes. Many of the following works were started on location, often whilst dodging showers. It became my practice to start a piece on location and then finish it later at home from a photo. Later in the summer I started working from some of my extensive collection of older photos as i’ve always been a keen photographer.