Stuart Tocher's Biography
Stuart Tocher has always been interested in art, having spent much of his time and money visiting art galleries across the UK and the Continent. He prefers land and seascape paintings, particularly the works of old masters such as Claude, Turner and Whistler.
He started painting some time after inheriting his fathers watercolours and brushes, but finding watercolours limiting he changed to oils and has never looked back. It was during this change he was fortunate to get to know the painter Martin Kinnear, who has helped to develop his techniques and Stuart as a painter.
Working on canvas and board, Stuart favours Robert Gamblin artists paints and mediums for their colour consistency. He also enjoys researching and using the techniques practiced by the old masters, for example the impossible colours created when painting indirectly, or the effect translucent paint has on a glazed grisaille.
In his paintings he has tried to recreate the feeling and mood he experienced while on location, and if he has managed to pass some of this over to the viewer he has achieved his aim, but all said and done, all Stuart wants to do is paint.