Tony Taylor, PWS In 1994 I retired from the Finance Industry in Guernsey - and at last I could devote time to teach myself to paint in watercolour! With this new found luxury of time on my hands, I enrolled for an evening class locally at The College of Further Education. At the end of the third week of term, our tutor resigned and I was persuaded to take the class over; with no other tutors available, the College would have closed the class - so I agreed. We met weekly and I had to come up with a different theme, demonstrating the techniques involved. The local library produced a wonderful array of books which I read avidly and gradually I managed to acquire just enough knowledge to move slightly ahead of my colleagues. In the meantime, I applied to Dedham to join one of their watercolour courses and was accepted. At Dedham, I had the good fortune to meet and join James Fletcher-Watson's course, returning annually for several years. I continued to teach at CFE for a further two years before breaking away to run my own watercolour painting courses in Guernsey. As numbers increased, I opened up in the UK, adding Cumbria, North Norfolk and Snowdonia to my schedule. By now I had a number of painters who would join me on several courses each year and this continued for another eight years or so before I reluctantly decided to confine my teaching to Guernsey for family reasons. Two years ago I retired from structured teaching, but I am still providing one-to-one tuition in watercolour working from our home on the island. Using painters-online as a forum, I just wondered whether, somehow, I might be able to help fellow watercolourists who were struggling with some aspect of this medium. For anyone expressing interest, we could swop email addresses on a one-to-one basis, enabling me to offer advice and crits on their work. I should add that I am not looking for any form of payment - for me, it is enough to feel that I might be able to help someone resolve a particular problem and move them on to a higher level of skills in this rewarding medium.