Tuition in painting can take on many forms. I believe that the best way to tutor someone in painting is to encourage them to make and question their own decisions. Painting is a wonderful activity where we enter into some kind of dialogue with the painting. Dictating our wishes on the one hand but listening to the needs of the emerging picture, on the other.

I am not one to tread too carefully as I work on different areas of the painting. I am not one to trace from photographs or project the image onto the canvas. For me, painting starts with a subject and though there may be a focus within that subject, all the different elements within the painting have a role to play. I am pulling and pushing paint around the canvas. My mood will change as I work. I guess that over time, this somehow leads to a more objective treatment of everything within the picture. Above all, painting is a struggle. The finished or abandoned painting is the result of that struggle and does not mean that it has failed.

This is not to say that I don't embrace other approaches to painting - I do! and I'm sometimes jealous of other's natural ability.

If you think I can help you to develop the way you paint, then please email me. This could be in the studio or out in the field.