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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> He acknowledges that living in St Ives and being enveloped by the sea has been an extraordinary experience for him. Now he lives with his wife Annie in a fisherman’s cottage in the heart of Downalong contrasting greatly with the home he had in the Berkshire countryside where he was surrounded by dense trees and woods. He now realises that he was claustrophobic unable to see the endless land and sea that now so excites him. When John painted figuratively he felt tied to the way things are: the colour the objects the subject. For example he never painted a person without that person being there. All his work was carried out in the studio within four walls. Now he feels those confining walls have been knocked down and there is infinite space. This has given him a great sense of freedom. Everything in his life has the potential to become a memory to be stored and ultimately used as his Inspiration. He immerses himself into his surroundings and the minutiae of detail acutely aware of light and juxtapositions of forms sifting all this Information and transposing it down into the painting. He will look endlessly at the sea and the whiteness of the surf to try and find a way of expressing it without it being a literal interpretation. (LL)