I am not an artist nor do I claim to be. I am a painter because I apply paint to a surface. The Wandering Brush is the name I call my painting expression purely because often somehow the painting finds itself. There is rarely a plan and never an image to reproduce but rather a colour, a brush stroke and a journey.

In line with the rest of the site all my paintings are featured here regardless of quality.

I do not follow rules as I am a believer that art should be free from boxes and constraints, it should simply be what it is.

At school I failed Art, after fifteen years of writing, I decided to forget everything I was taught, ignore every failure like I do with the rest of my wort and simply paint, see if I could find a way.

In many ways if I had been given the opportunity to experiment at School with different materials, brushes and mediums I would have been a lot more positive and not a "I cannot draw kid".

In this way I believe art is taught wrong in schools because it has, like many arts, become a science full of boxes, constraints and qualification. True art is not science it is what it is regardless of anything else.

If kids want to paint with their fingers, elbows, brushes of whatever type, in any colour of form they should not be restrained but encouraged to unleash their creativity without fear of not conforming and the fear of failure.

Anyone can paint for colours are all around us since the day we are born but education has burned into their minds that they cannot.

The Wandering Brush for me is the erasure of my GCSE art failure and a freedom for a new journey of exploration.