The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. A view.

I went to this annual summer event with a little trepidation having watched the BBC preview programme. It seemed that a lot of the art they reviewed had to have some deep, political or sad significance in order to get selected. I paint for the pleasure of finding the beauty in everyday subjects, they may have a significance to me but I hope the viewer finds there own story and I hope it is an uplifting one.

With over a thousand art works to see at the exhibition there was something for all tastes, so of course I found plenty to admire and inspire me along with many that I could not fathom why they were chosen! That is the joy of The Summer Exhibition, stuff to shock, to question, to amuse, to enjoy and to make you think outside the box. I was drawn to the more spare and minimal pieces with a figure or object in a large space. So that could be my next inspiration for a new painting.