Born a ‘Railway Child’ in what used to be East Anglia’s railway capital of Melton Constable; Dix Waterson is my ‘nomme de brosse’ (brush name); being an amalgamation of my mother’s maiden name of Dix and my father’s name of Waters. I have been a very prolific oil and watercolour painter, and over the years have assembled a 100 strong collection of digital images of my work. My most notable achievement was to earn acceptance at the annual exhibition of the Royal society of Marine Artists in 2001 when one of my paintings was first to sell on preview night. My preference is to paint in a way which sometimes seems somewhat detailed, but which on close examination is in fact far from being ‘photographic’. That is my interpretation of ‘impressionism’, and I consider my best works to be those which remain strong when viewed from the far side of a room. wwwpaintings4eu.blogspot.com