Hi everybody, painting, and art is something I have done most of my life now that I am retired I get to paint every day. The inspiration I think comes from my grandfather who was a painter in the 1920s, it's very interesting looking at those paintings and what we paint today. I paint mostly for pleasure with the odd commission here and there, subjects are rural Australia, portraits, pets, and still life, all my art is realism but I`m working on trying some abstract at the moment, I work mostly with acrylic and watercolour.