Forty-six years old, Stewart Edmondson initially trained as a landscape architect. He grew up in Yorkshire, walking the dales, running the fells in a family where art materials were always at hand. Working for the Wildlife Trust he introduced children to the great outdoors through camping and hiking trips. Whilst convalescing from a serious accident in 1998 he realised the emotional necessity to paint full-time. The conviction to paint was strengthened when his son was born 10 years ago and he has never looked back. His work is a homage to the wild, natural landscape around his Dartmoor home, and, with a small portable fisherman’s hut as his only buttress against the wild Devon weather (‘the wilder the bettter’), the major part of his works are done in situ. They include seascapes from trips to the nearby south coast, and to the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, where he took an unscheduled dip in the atlantic whilst painting at Zennor. This is his second solo show with Beaux Arts.