It was very flattering to be asked to be one of the selectors for The Discerning Eye. I have enjoyed the experience hugely. Firstly in being able to invite artists whose work I admire to send in paintings and secondly in participating with the other selectors in the process of choosing paintings from the many open submissions.

I have a visual mind and have always been interested in the visual arts. Having painted quite a lot in my teens and early twenties, I have bought paintings whenever I could afford to. In fact collecting has become quite addictive.

In my undergraduate days at Cambridge I was for a year or so a reviewer of art exhibitions. But I came to the conclusion that a critics role should be very limited. Works of art should "speak for themselves" and if they need explanation in words then it means something is missing in the works themselves.

To me the visual arts are all about a real feeling for light colour and form in no particular order of importance.

The works themselves should demonstrate the artists mastery of the innate qualities of the media he has used. I hope this comes through in the works which I have chosen.

 

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