I feel as if I have painted all my life. As a child, I visited art galleries regularly and then came home to “copy” what I had seen. At university, unable to afford art material, I cut up magazines to create large paper collage landscapes, exhibiting 20 in Forty Hall, Enfield. Then as a teacher in an inner London school, I painted in oils. In 2008, my wife and I moved to Bangkok and I took up watercolour, a medium I found interesting, challenging and unpredictable. I took a few workshops and developed my own heavy handed, haphazard, deep toned style. My paintings are never delicate or pretty and I paint landscapes generally, but have painted flowers and dogs and the occasional still life. In 2018, I did a series of black and while paintings using powdered charcoal and ink, a messy hit and miss process, but lately I have tried to concentrate on painting landscapes both in watercolour and mini 6”x6” oils. I have had some of my watercolours jury selected for various International Watercolour Society Shows (Japan/Slovenia/Pennsylvania/Indonesia/Thailand/Myanmar) in recent years. To see more of my work, please go to my website: www.antia-art.co.uk