Alfred Wallis

I got a book from the library called 'A World of their Own: Twentieth Century British Naive Painters' which I have found particularly inspiring and I will probably featuring several artists from the book in my research but I'll begin with Alfred Wallis.
Wallis' story was just as interesting as the art itself for me, I love that his instinct was to paint after working on the sea for his entire life and that his paintings reflected that completely. He knew the ships he was painting so well that he didn't have to leave the house and could paint from memory.
I love the child-like nature of the paintings and his disregard for trying to make things look as they would. You can tell by his paintings that he has experienced a life at sea because of the energy and movement in the pieces
You also get a real sense of Britishness to these paintings which I really like, you get a real feeling of the seaside when you look at his pictures. His use of muted colours in the ocean and houses too are really inspiring to me because they are the kind of colours that I predominantly try and use in my work.