I sometimes paint a pair of pictures - a diptych - two that make one, and working on two panels can help make a large scale project more...

Every time I start a studio based painting I intend it to be subject free, a set of shapes, colours and lines that all work together to...

Finished. Not a lot of green left, but on close inspection it glints through. I am pleased with the way the picture has grown, and one of...

With the main structures in place, the ideas flow. Now that I am following a theme, I try not to make it too much of a 'picture', and...

I sometimes help with my wife's allotment. I do a lot of looking there and taken a great many photographs. There is a lot happening up on...

At Tate Britain there is a room of sketches and studies, 'odds and sods', by Turner. I spent a lot of time in there, and much time in...