As a self taught painter in the plein air tradition, I endeavor to use pure transparent watercolour to record the inherent and latent beauty I witness in our natural and man made environments. The use of lost and found shapes and edges enables me to tease the image from its background hopefully resulting in simple evocative slightly impressionistic paintings in the best tradition of pure watercolour. In my oil paintings I strive for a direct approach on textured boards with as little layering as possible. As with the watercolours, painting out doors in front of the subject is central part of the creative process.