Some artists paint to express their innermost feelings, some need to shock or fascinate. I paint for pleasure and I'm always delighted if other people enjoy my work as much as I do. 

Paintings may be used to remind us of the wonderful things around us. Sitting at the breakfast table gazing at a painting that reminds you of your last holiday, or seeing gorgeous colours brightening up a functional corner of the kitchen or perhaps lazing on the sofa in the middle of a long, cold winter looking at a painting of a sunny mediterranean café whilst sipping at a glass of red wine. These are the sort of things that enhance our lives whilst we are forced to be getting on with the business of earning a living.

The works of the Impressionists, e.g. Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas have inspired me to paint for pleasure. Mine and that of the observer. I paint on canvas or paper, using mainly acrylic paint, watercolours or pastels to capture fleeting impressions or feelings. Sometimes I use sketches or photographs as an aid to create paintings in my studio.

I was born in Leicester, England and have lived in Forchheim, Germany since 1982. I have studied art at a number of art courses at, amongst others, the Faber-Castell Art Academy, Nuremberg.

Current exhibitions
La Enoteca, Apotheken Straße 14, Forchheim, Germany
Kunstwerk, Reutherstr. 38, Forchheim, Germany
Praxis Dr. med. Norman Klinger, Facharzt für Innere Medizin, Möhrendorfer Str. 25a, 91056 Erlangen, Germany

Awards
2005 Roth Regional Painting Competition “Roth Lake Impression” special recognition
2006 Interpretation of the theme “Colour is Life” second place

Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari. Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.