For most of my career I have invented the content of my pictures, sometimes relying for content on my knowledge of past and present art. I would conjure up some figures and perhaps place them in an imaginary albeit stereotypical landscape. Since 2007, however, I have occasionally been taking a box of oil colour outside when the weather permitted. In the summer just gone I spend several mornings and evenings in and over-looking Dunraven Bay on the Glamorgan coast. The ‘en plein air’ oil studies are now all over the studio and the resulting larger canvasses will hopefully be exhibited next year. In the meantime you could catch one or two up on twitter (@berrystraBe)