Justin Hervey Justin's early influences during his schooldays include the great impressionists, more specifically: Degas & Monet and more recently: Singer-Sargent, Sorolla and Levitan. His preferred medium has evolved from pencil, charcoal & conte chalk in his early years, through watercolour and on to a current fascination with the sumptuous texture of oils. Included in his fields of interest are landscape, cityscape, still life, figure studies and portraits.