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Probably no artist has done so much to inspire so many watercolour painters than the late Edward Wesson. Though he died in 1983 his paintings continue to soar in popularity and hardly a year goes by without another book celebrating the man and his art. In this DVD Steve Hall, a wonderful loose and fluid watercolour painter who has co written two books on Wesson returns to one of Ted's old haunts Walberswick on the Suffolk coast to demonstrate the magic of Ted's painting technique. Using Ted's trademark "French polisher's" mop brush Steve paints four scenes that were favourites with Ted and reveals the secrets behind Ted's deceptively simple painting techniques. Running Time: 86 Minutes About Steve Hall: I am delighted that to have teamed up with Town House Films and sincerely hope that you will share with me the delights of painting in watercolour. Although my childhood years were spent during the austerity period that followed the second world war, I was fortunate to have been born into a very English rural community and to have benefited from being part of extended village community family on the outskirts of Bath. I drew from an early age, particularly during the winter months when our isolated farmhouse boasted no electricity but a good set of encyclopaedia from which I could copy endless images. Sadly art became relegated way down the list of priorities as teenage years approached and it was not to be for another forty years that I would seriously take up pencil or ...