Artwork by Richard Pearce
I was not allowed to do art as a child, my father was a Rolls Royce aircraft engineer. My father said I should be an engineer like him, I just could not tell him it was the last thing I wanted to do.
When I started working, I started painting in the evenings. It became my source of strength and stability. I have had some tuition but in watercolour, I wanted to paint in oils. A few years ago I switched to oils, made plenty of mistakes but carried on 4 to 6 hours a day. …
