John Freeman
Artist Statement - "I find the immediacy of watercolour exciting and stimulating. It enables me to combine my love of detail with broad areas where pigment, paper, and water create their own qualities. Since 1981, when my love affair with watercolours took hold, I have painted exclusively in that medium. But although subjects may vary, my real love has always been the more remote rural aspects of a given area. The un-renovated, the basic, and the dilapidated buildings are those which quicken the eye and the hand." "The legacy of my earlier oil painting days has had considerable bearing on the way my painting has developed, giving a different feel to my watercolours, and a strength not normally associated with the medium.
