In this episode, James Hart Dyke talks about how landscape painting caught his imagination from an early age, how he studied architecture before going to art school, how he made his name painting country houses, being the accompanying artist on four royal tours with the then Prince of Wales, his attraction to dramatic landscapes in particular climbing mountains such as Everest to capture the views, being a war artist in Iraq and Afghanistan, his experience of drawing and painting with the British Secret Intelligence Service, his portrait painting and his recent ascent of Mont Blanc to paint summit pictures.