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The Kingfishers Larder is a blue painting of bright blue turquoise water with a tiny kingfisher flying across it. This painting is simply about the colour blue and how enjoyable it is painting sparkling water and the sunlight catching on the ripples of the surface. The kingfisher was added as she is also a glorious holy blue and so this is her domain and her larder. This painting is 30x40x1.5 inches on deep edge canvas with the edges also blue.

I am a professional artist based in Sussex and I paint large original landscape and seascape paintings in oil on canvas. I have a Fine Art degree in sculpture (Brighton, 1983) but am mostly self taught as a painter. My painting style is a fusion of Expressionist, Impressionist, Semi-abstract, Art Deco, a little Art Nouveau and whatever mood I am in that day. I often practice a kind of Impressionism in that I walk, look at things and then paint from memory. The result is that I paint what was impressed upon me when I looked at a landscape - thus a kind of Impressionism! (I hope that makes sense). I am inspired by the patterns of nature and the energy, colours and spaces of the landscapes and animals around me. I like to think that...