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WATERCOLOUR TEXTURES

As primarily a painter of landscapes, my work has often featured stone and its many textures. From shiny, worked granite and natural field boulders to stone rows and rocky coves, it seems as if I’ve painted stone in all its forms and guises. Living and working on the edge of Dartmoor and close to the coastal cliffs of south Devon, I have an almost never-ending source of subject matter to fill sketchbooks and subsequently canvases back in the studio.

Over the many years of painting stone, two characteristics seem to stand out above all others. One is

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