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Roger Dellar's enjoyment of painting is the process rather than the end result. It is about finding the subject and letting it emerge. He enjoys the surface created, the brushwork and the differences between lean and fat paint. He wants the painting to read from a distance as reality, but close up to be a series of marks. 

With composition, he likes this to emerge by looking for the spatial qualities of one shape creating an imbalance, and then being resolved by another. He likes to work with a limited palette adding a few brights for emphasis. Working from life and in the studio, using oil, pastel, watercolour or gouache, Dellar uses a sketchbook to paint a series of small oils on location and developing them later into larger, more considered pieces. 

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