David Dawson

But for them now, the fun for me is just painting and then pulling it together for this show and...

I draw a little, but it tends to... I feel the drawing comes into the paintings.

Yeah, but it's done with paint rather than... Yeah, with a brush, yeah.

Yeah, it's done with a brush, exactly.

So I tend to draw and paint in a... They're very close together, sit in the same bed.

Exactly.

Yeah, and that is, that's just drawing with a paintbrush outside.

Yeah, the energy of it or the immediacy of it.

And then to make it a painting, you need the distillation and the sort of concentration to come from that.

That's what I'm going through in my head.

Yeah, I think they're quite emotional and romantic.

That's sort of spiritual.

I love being in the land and your ego disappearing and just the realization of how powerful nature is.

May and June, as everything just explodes with growth.

It's phenomenal watching that happen.

You know, in the UK, because it's family farms, a lot of this land has livestock on it.

So on my farm, there's sheep and cows.

We breed it for meat.

And you get to know how animals behave.

And that's part of the land.