Watercolours  I stopped painting in 1978 and produced only computer based work for the next 16 years.  By 1994 I guess I had relaxed a bit about what an artist is allowed to do.  In addition to the computer work I wanted to do something different, something sensual and immediate.  Watercolours were fast and exhilirating, you don't need much equipment, you can do them at home, they don't smell, people understand pictures.  It was easy to start painting.

I have found watercolours reveal my signature and psychology very directly.  The work started as a kind of slack and cheerful doodling but I had to move on in search of content.  The pictures here reflect a few developed interests - the performance of painting, remembered landscape as a premise for a painting, painting as drawing, how much you 'cook' a painting and so on.

Painting 'landscape watercolours' in this era has worried me from time to time.  I think I understand why I do it.  Having succumbed to it you have to go along with the inevitable.  Modernity and Post-Modernity don't come into it, Romantic and spiritual challenge do.