Welcome to my new Blog!

Hello, nice to meet you. After working for 40 years as a Design Engineer with a large Chemical Company I found retirement quite difficult to accept.  I did consultancy work for a further 5 years before finally accepting that retirement was inevitable.  I needed to find something to keep my mind and body active.  The latter was achieved by walking and gardening but keeping the mind active was much more difficult - you can only do so many crosswords.  
I decided to try my hand at watercolour painting as I had a good aptitude for sketching and perspective because of my profession.  I found it difficult at first as watercolours can be very unforgiving but I stuck at it and now find it both relaxing and rewarding.  I have no subject that I specialise in, I only paint what I think will make a pleasant composition irrespective of the subject.  Many of my early paintings are based on works by famous artists but this was only to enable me to learn from their works.  I now paint my own works and these are mainly portraits of family and friends.  I paint purely for pleasure and enjoyment.

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