John Hoar was born in 1947 and studied architecture at Cambridge. He has been painting for a living since 1980 and has won several prizes for watercolour and teaches courses both at home in Devon as well as at Dedham Hall and Big Sky Art. He has five instructional DVDs made by Town House Films and instructs gatherings in Scotland and Ireland, the USA, France and Sweden. In 2016 he represented the British watercolourists at the International Watercolour Symposium in Qingdao, China. A new book about his work, written by Steve Hall – John Hoar: An Artist’s Journey – is due for publication this spring.
It has long been a habit of artists painting or sketching in the open air to pluck a twig from a hedgerow and sharpen it with a
