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I began painting in the late 1930s when a friend and I went on cycling/sketching expeditions. These paintings are so bad that none of them are exhibited here... The earliest drawings in the exhibition date from the end of the Second World War and from the years when I taught art in Shrewsbury. In 1960 I turned from teaching art to local history, and then, through an encounter with a rampart section at Wroxeter, to excavation. The next ten years were so taken up with excavations at Worcester, Hen Domen, Wroxeter and elsewhere that I had no time to paint, but in 1970 I began again, inspired by aerial photographs and by the landscape itself, particularly its earthworks, and by the sculpture of Henry Moore, whose influence can be seen in many of the reliefs.
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