These talks are rooted in over thirty-five years of experience as a practicing painter, mentor, and educator, including more than two decades lecturing at the National Gallery, London.

Led from the perspective of the studio rather than the academy, the talks explore painting through the lived process of making: materially, emotionally, historically, and contextually. They consider not only what paintings mean, but how they work – how colour, gesture, rhythm, structure, surface, and time shape the experience of looking.

Rather than traditional lectures, these sessions are intended as shared acts of attention and conversation. Moving slowly through individual works, they invite participants to experience paintings through the eyes of someone deeply engaged in the practice of painting itself.

The talks often explore:

– how painters construct images  

– the physical and material language of painting  

– attention, perception, and embodied looking  

– painting as a record of time and experience  

– the relationship between artistic process and meaning  

– historical works in dialogue with contemporary practice  

At their heart, the talks are about learning to look more deeply and discovering how paintings continue to shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.