Ian Sidaway's huge dirty paint box creates luminous watercolors.
I first met British watercolor artist Sidaway through a series of small food books by John Midgley - love at first sight.
Later I found Ian's landscape watercolor book...
We met enfin the flesh at a watercolor workshop in Poppi, Tuscany. Yesterday I visited his Richmond studio.
Ian's a master of layering, color, values. 
He paints full across the page back to back... 
Ian plots out his paintings in thumbnail sketches first. 
Ian's done at least 90 painting books on all mediums. 
Piles of watercolors fill his workshed.
Breath-taking no? 
The garden looks to have escaped from his paintings... 
An artists dream house.
Surrounded by wonderful English antique trash. 
BONJOUR SID!
