About DAVID CHANDLER
Frome, England
David teaches weekly classes and painting courses, and writes and presents Seeing Things, a local radio show about art. www.davidchandler.net
I’m packing my suitcase for the first painting holiday of the season, daydreaming about the marble mountains of the Lunigiana, shimmering above the olives trees and grapevines, when this memory pops into my brain. I try to dislodge it with terracotta rooftops and the sparkling blue waters of the Golfo dei Poeti, but to no avail, back it comes…
Last year, after one of Dermot and Kathryn’s wine-fuelled lunches, on a gloriously sunny afternoon, in front of all my students, I painted one of my worst pictures. Ever.
I plodded back through the garden to the villa, easel under my arm, hot, bothered and prickling…