His wife Maria Menzies was also a successful landscape painter in watercolour and exhibited widely with her husband at Dudley Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Academy in London,[3] Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
He painted outdoors, en plein air, using quick and messy brush strokes trying to capture the atmosphere of a particular time of day or the effects of light in a landscape.
He worked quickly with unmixed colours to achieve an effect of dynamism.
All the elements painted are fused by the absence of drawing and intensity of vibrating colours.
The final effect is a painting full of real sensations and life thanks to the two main protagonists: light and colour.