Since 2004 a large series of inter-related landscape watercolours has been a major part of my work.

Watercolour as a medium is generally admired for technical spontaneity and dash, whilst being considered unforgiving of mistakes and correction. I find its transparency ideal for allowing the painting to develop slowly over time. It is the virtual depth of appearances where memory and intuition have the greatest freedom that interests me most.

Watercolour is less dramatic than oil painting because it lacks that medium's powerful covering and opaque blocking-out capacity. It is nevertheless the most suggestible and subtle of mediums, and its atmosphere of controlled indistinctness always leads on to further thoughts. CLB.

The Autumn 2006 edition of the Turner Society News has an interview with the artist by Cecilia Powell. Christopher Le Brun received the J.M.W. Turner medal for watercolour in 2005. For the full text see: Constructive, Investigative and Truthful.