When I was lucky enough to find my little terrace house here on a hill overlooking the seaside town of Watchet I was happy to find how easily the second bedroom, with its view over Bristol Channel, could be adapted to become a studio. I didn’t realise until I began to focus on the still life genre, was that it also had the benefit of ‘north light’, also referred to as ‘reflected light’ or indirect light.
I soon began to appreciate how essential this orientation, so valued by artists down through the centuries, was to my emerging style of painting. A soft, diffuse and consistent illumination floods in from the window, without the distraction and changeability of direct sunlight and it’s hard edged shadows. The subtle shadows and shading this gives have become a characteristic part of my style and technique
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