Fishing Boats, Essaouira, Morocco, gouache, 251/23173/4in (65345cm). ‘I loved the pattern made by the boats almost fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle as well as the wide variety of blues needed to paint them. The men were relaxing and resting after a day’s fishing.’
Brian Fleming paints colourful, detailed and realistic paintings that capture the life and atmosphere of the places he visits. Brian taught art and photography for 30 years while painting in his spare time. ‘I became interested in art when I was about 16; I never painted realistically at college, I was interested in abstraction and produced large-scale hard-edge paintings. Conceptual art wasn’t as fashionable then as it is now. Since I have been painting in a realistic way, my work has become gradually more detailed and more photorealistic.’
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