David Dawson

And I felt, yeah, a sort of rupture in my memory, in a sense.

I wasn't connected to it, and I felt that never left me.

So I was in a very lucky position.

About 2009, a very small farm with some land came up at auction, and I just grabbed it, and it's over the hill from where I was brought up.

Really?

So it's the land I really, really know.

No.

And the other thing about being brought up in those formative teenage years, because it was such a remote part of the country, I spent a lot of time being solitary.

You know, you're up on the hills, you're looking after your animals.

And that gives you time to think.

And I was drawing and painting.

So I've always been outside and reacting and responding to things.

being in the land so that for me is an absolute necessity i feel for my not my inner life but just for me to be to respond and react to the land i'm looking at and that's why i really love plein air painting

Well, at Chelsea Art School, I was painting... I was on the third floor and we had big windows.

I was just painting the rooftops of Chelsea.

Really?

Yeah.

And then at the Royal College, it was becoming more abstracted, which was a good learning curve.

And then straight after the Royal College, I met Lucien.

So I did...