You create a lot of your own work on location, what draws you to this way of working?
In order to capture the essence of a scene, a painting needs to stimulate all the senses. A good painting should be infused with a sense of the temperature of the light, and almost recall the smell and feel the weather. Photography is only a momentary documentation of a scene that can flatten the dimension, change the colors and darken the values. My connection with the scene I am painting needs to be longer than it takes to close a shutter...