After retiring, I learnt through the RSASA of a Friday morning sketching group, and in mid-2012, I started going out to sites with them.

I began with pencil and large paper sketch pads for the first six months, hoping to swap to acrylic paints after that. But after trying acrylics at one sketching site, and during a week in the Flinders Ranges in late September, I decided I would need to swap to oils for outdoor work.

Personal commitments then prevented me from regularly painting with the group until late 2022, but since then I have regularly painted with them, and also set up a website for the group (AdelaideOutdoorPainting.org).

The experience of plein air painting is unique.  While I enjoy the comfort of painting indoors, it cannot compare with the personal experience of responding to the impact of a scene by recording it on site.

To enable current sketches to be seen first, these are being presented in reverse chronological order, with the latest at the start.