Sometimes in life events happen which are encouraging and to be honest are good for you. One of those events happened on Thursday. It was the opening preview evening for my latest exhibition at Clyde & Co solicitors with Guildford Arts Notwithstanding that selling a piece is always uplifting, what really boosted me were the words of encouragement from the visitors who were viewing. So a good evening; I felt uplifted.

One of the conversation points of the evening was about painting in the open. Personally, I like people contact when painting; I enjoy the process of conversation banter and chit chat. But another aspect is the work produced.

The accuracy and artistic fineness of studio work will never be attained in the open air. But where the fineness is lost, certainly a looseness and freedom to express is gained, which makes the work exceedingly valid. Attached is a a ketch from near Cromer in Norfolk to illustrate this.

In previous postings I have also discussed using a scanner as a dark room camera.  We also discussed this aspect of my work during the evening.  Take look back in the blog to see some of those images.

See you soon.