Beach life

Every painting’s varying subject matter and scale offers us distinct opportunities and challenges. Before I start any project, I like to consider what I want to convey, what opportunities and challeng

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

The origins of the blue vase I lived for several years in an Art Deco flat in Southwest London. I would visit local markets around the capital in search of interesting decorative pieces, and on one oc

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

I lived for several years in an Art Deco flat in Southwest London. I would visit local markets around the capital in search of interesting decorative pieces, and on one occasion spotted several variou

My life in the cheese world stemmed from a geeky fascination with microbial life and how those living microbes can change a food product. I started painting through a fascination with soil microbiolog