I spent many of my childhood days drawing almost anything with just pencil and paper

My work in adult life took me to the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall

where I was inspired by the spectacular coastal scenes and colourful fishing harbours

Wanting to capture these experiences, I attempted painting them in watercolours

Working for many years in watercolours and also gouache, since

I now consider myself mainly self taught

I have become sensitive to light and colour

I have no art related qualifications

I am full time as a visual artist and web author

I like to paint seascapes, cornish ones are favourite

floral scenes, particularly bluebell and poppy

abstract scenes from the imagination and wet on wet random effects

I paint in watercolour, gouache, mixed media, watercolour pen and pencil

I enjoy what I create, at a nice easy pace

My mentors are https://www.stephenbradbury.com/ Stephen Bradbury for the Lizard Peninsula and

https://www.facebook.com/bob.devereux.3 Bob Devereux for St Ives and my early teaching

quote from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u94DxOP51M... Norman Ackroyd

seascape / landscape artist

using copper plate and etching 'marks':

quote:

I dont think about the marks I'm making

I let the marks happen

theres a huge desire to make the marks

thats the heart

I let the eye look at it

and the hand just do what the eye and the heart wants

and I just respond to it because I feel I want to do it

so its very instinctive

:unquote

the emotional subconcious mind is instinctively inspired

then let it, the subconcious and inspiration, instinctively drive the hand and fingers

(you will feel your hand 'ticking') and with your eyes slightly out of focus

keeping the whole or near composition in sight

absolute creative pleasure

it will feel like you have been touched by an angel ; )

to me, illustration is about 50% perspiration, 50% inspiration

art is about 1% perspiration, 99% inspiration

I am about half way between the two, moving toward the latter

David McCormack

May 2023

a member of the Wolverhampton Society of Artists