Profile added to site on 21 March 2008

Alan was born in Battersea, London, and moved to Walton on Thames in 1984.

A chance meeting with one of his former work colleagues, (Trevor Johnson a Club member) five years ago, led him to becoming a member of the Walton Art Club also.

Alan has had no formal Art training and is completely self - taught, he has learnt and practiced by studying books, DVD’s and visiting various Galleries.

He gets a great deal of inspiration from other peoples work and likes a painting to be a painting and not a photograph.

His main influences have been the impressionist painters especially Van Gogh, the abstract painter Bryan Winter, and the more modern contemporary artists Kurt Jackson and Paul Wadsworth not forgetting the American artists Jackson Pollack and Edward Betts.

Alan has been painting regularly now for nine years starting with watercolour.

He has achieved great success at the Club’s annual Art Exhibitions which has seen him winning the Club’s Montague Webb Trophy two years running.

Many of his paintings are of water, especially the sea, he loves the way light affects the same view in endless different ways.

He paints in a “semi abstract” way in which subject, design and texture are all inextricably combined hopefully resulting in a painting that is stimulating and full of interest.

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