Creating Light in Oil - Richard Pikesley

Richard has a great love and awareness of the landscape and the effects of light and weather. This understanding has established him as a great painter of light and in this film his inspiration comes from the coastline around his home in Dorset. Working outdoors with a small pochade, he draws and paints small studies in and around the harbour at Lyme Regis as well as on the shore at Charmouth and on Eggardon Hill. Working in his studio, he uses much of this material to work up large canvases of Lyme Regis.