I am 65yrs old, married, with a grown up family and four grandchildren. I have lived in the little village of Bosherston in the south west corner of Pembrokeshire for almost thirty years. I started painting 10years ago and attended a weekly two hour class under the instruction of a lifelong art teacher named George Lewis and in passing on to me a fraction of his vast knowledge he taught me all I know about painting.
My main medium is watercolour but I occasionally work in acrylics or pen and ink. Living so close to the sea and the beautiful Pembrokeshire Coast my preferred subject is seascapes but I also enjoy landscapes, old buildings and also animals. Sitting on the cliff edge sketching and painting is the way I like to paint but I also work from photographs which I prefer to have taken myself, especially those of animals or people.
As a member of the Pembroke Arts Club I exhibit at their annual exhibition in Pembroke.
I also give the occasional demonstration for groups such as the W.I. and its Welsh counterpart Merched Y Wawr which can be a great if sometimes frightening experience.
Together with my wife Joyce who also paints we now run a small art group in our local village hall at Bosherston and we organise an annual exhibition with the group in aid of our local church.
My only claim to artistic fame is being chosen to take part in the Channel 4 competition, Watercolour Challenge when it visited Pembrokeshire. I didn’t win but it was a very proud moment for all those artists who took part to be later invited to the opening night of the exhibition of all the season’s paintings at the Mall Galleries in London. |
