Painting has been important to me for most of my life. I started teaching it and sharing the pleasure in 1973 and I'm still teaching occasionally. I find changing mediums very exciting and I like to express some subjects with oil, others with watercolour and pastel. The process of painting is my main enjoyment, more so than the finished product, although that is important to me too. I enjoy choosing and mixing colour, the odour and richness of the oil and mineral spirits, the flow of the watercolour and the strokes and texture of the pastels. It puts me in...more