“The Spetses painting, whilst different in tone to the Sussex paintings that he did in the same period, does have similar brushwork. I think, though, that painting was always for him a way of experiencing the world and his habit every summer was to sit or stand with a sketching box round his neck, starting with a cardboard viewfinder to find the image; this was the way of painting he’d learned from Maurice Feild at school and carried on all his life.”