outdoor art is all about how the landscape looks. Back in my studio, it's as much about how it feels to be there, as how it looks. So I apply a big dollop of artist's license when making my 
studio paintings
Mostly oil paintings and linocuts, but creativity isn't fussy
Being creative is a messy, unruly business, and not just when the brushes are out
The messy part of creativity is the bit you can see: paint on hands, faces, floors, brand new jumpers. It's always the one brand new jumper you forgot to change out of, never any of the old ones all with holes in the elbows. Sigh.
The 'unruly' part is less visible. Creativity's a brat, it doesn't give too hoots for being 'consistent' and sticking to one thing on repeat. Creativity wants to go exploring, trying new and different… especially art mediums.
The potential marks, textures, colours, and effects offered by different mediums such as paint, charcoal, ink, and sheep dung, are just too much excitement for creativity to pass on.
I've never worked with sheep dung I have to say, though the sculptor and land artist, Andy Goldsworthy, has (and he's not the only one I understand).
Below is a list of media I have worked with that can be found in the collections on this website.
Oil paint
My outdoor art collection is overwhelmingly in oils. They're resistent to being rained on for one thing, though only for slightly longer than this artist is.
All my studio paintings collection is in oil paint, and I'm not sure that's going to change any time soon.
Print blocks & ink
All my traditional prints are linocuts, so far, and can be found in my studio prints collection.
I've plans to experiment – that unruly creativity again – with other kinds of original prints, such as collagraph and monotype. So far though, linocut has held me captive on the printmaking front.
Digital art
My digital art is also in the studio prints collection. It's all hand drawn and painted using the medium of 'computer'.
My digital art is in the style of my linocuts. I build the artwork up as though I'm using lino blocks, and think how I'd ink the blocks while painting. This art is as authentic as it can be to my linocuts.
Other wet media
There are a few other media which are in my outdoor art collection. Mostly acrylics right now.
Media that's good on paper is ideal for three plein‑airPainted outdoors situations I find myself in:
- When time is really short
- Working in stealth mode, under the radar of passers-by to minimize interruptions
- …and lastly, when it's about hiking this way and that, because I've no idea what I'm doing!
Pencil & Charcoal
Good old pencil and charcoal are always with me. I've not made any of this work available so far. However, some of the projects I have planned will require some thinking about that'll be best done in this media.