A Petersfield Museum exhibition of work by well known and highly regarded landscape painter Gordon Rushmer from Petersfield is to run until next month.

Rushmers A World in Watercolour exhibition is open to February 25.

'For an artist, a life more exciting is hard to imagine'. With these words, Gordon Rushmer reflects on his long and successful career as a painter.

Rushmer graduated from Farnham School of Art in 1967 and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator.

But painting is his passion, and he has dedicated himself to his work for nearly 50 years.

Working primarily as a watercolourist, Rushmer's favourite subject is the landscape around him.

This includes the Hampshire and Sussex landscape, which he has known since childhood.

But in contrast, is his work as an official artist deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Eritrea with British and Dutch Royal Marines and Special Forces in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The clarity and detail in Rushmer's paintings are achieved by his knowledge of his medium and his close observation of his subject matter.

Rushmer walks the hills and countryside, preferably on his own, carrying a camera to catch those fleeting moments of lights, and sketchbooks for making notes about composition and colour.

Although the titles of Rushmer's paintings refer to specific places, the paintings themselves express a more personal and poetic state of mind.