In case you thought painting was easy. I have to tell you a cautionary tale of a painter who failed to take account of his own compositional guidelines and nearly came a cropper as a result. It turns out that its one thing to know what you should do, but another to actually do it! […]

I painted this picture recently which I have called Blossom (9″ x 12″ oil on board) and as it is a more complicated arrangement than most of the little studies I have been doing lately it made me think again about the subject of composition and how essential it is to making a good painting

Hang on a second ! I hear you cry as one, surely we all know that there are no “rules” about colour harmony and how to create it in a picture, after all every attempt to lay such a rule down is quickly overturned by an example of a first rate picture that breaks it.