Pebble beach

I STRUGGLED INTO MY LAYERS, picked up my light sketching kit and off I went up into the hills behind where I live. I wasn’t the first to arrive; halfway up the hill I could already hear the cries of e

Awash is a fundamental watercolour technique and so it makes sense to start these twelve articles by delving into their beauty with a look at how they are created and interact with one another to buil

Into the white - negative painting for dramatic brightness This time I am looking at uses of ‘white’ paper in a painting to suggest a light source, exploiting the benefits of light bouncing back from

DECADES MAY HAVE PASSED, but Norfolk still has a claim on David Riches. Wooden sailing boats on the Broads, sunlight on the water, the quiet countryside – they still appear in his work. “If I see a tr

Into the white - negative painting for dramatic brightness This time I am looking at uses of ‘white’ paper in a painting to suggest a light source, exploiting the benefits of light bouncing back from

Westminster Bridge is one of those quintessentially London locations that has been painted many times before, but with this piece, my aim was something different. Here I wanted to capture not the land