This short video is a small visual diary of oil pastel drawings and short trips around Wales. It moves between travel, looking, sketchbook work, and the kind of quiet landscape moments that often become paintings later in the studio.
The video is about the simple rhythm behind my work: walking, noticing colour, making quick oil pastel drawings, and collecting impressions from the Welsh coast and countryside. These little journeys feed the studio work and often become the first step toward a finished painting.
Oil pastel is perfect for this kind of looking. It is direct, rich, and portable, so I can respond quickly to changing weather, sea light, cliffs, fields, roads, and small details that would disappear if I waited too long. A drawing made outside can stay a sketch, or it can become the first note for a larger Welsh landscape painting.
For anyone interested in contemporary Welsh landscape art, plein air sketching, oil pastel techniques, or the everyday life of an artist in Wales, this video gives a small glimpse into where the work begins.