Oliver reed talk

We had a talk from an artist named Oliver Reed, who also teaches at Edinburgh University. I found his work rather interesting, and I think I remember a part where he said he didn't just paint with brushes and that he also paints with rocks to get the stone texture. He also didn't paint from just one picture, he took several pictures and used them all to create one painting for example, he would maybe take the top right corner and place it in the top left corner and take the centre point and perhaps put it to the side. There was one painting by Oliver that I really liked, it was a painting of a forest like place in winter time and the skies were cold and grey and he really looked at the parts of the trees that snow falls on and sticks, but my favourite point of the painting was the snow itself, he had somehow splattered the paint across the page to make the flake effect and it just looked really nice.