Jim Woodman took up painting full time in the year 2000 after giving up a career in the corporate sector. He is now a very active painter exhibiting widely and involved with a number of painting groups and associated bodies. His inspiration is the landscape which he paints in both watercolours and acrylics. Much of his work celebrates the rough, moody beauty of Scotland particularly the Isle of Skye. He contrasts this work with paintings of the Thames and of Hampton Court Palace and Marble Hill House, and occasionally ventures into the hot climates of Southern Europe, particularly Tuscany and Spain.

He has exhibited at the Fountain Gallery since 2003 and is a regular exhibitor at the Midsummer Art Fair held at the Landmark Centre, Teddington. He has been selected for the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour at the Mall Galleries. His work is exhibited at the Chase Art Centre, Wadebridge, Cornwall. John Iddon Fine Art displays his work at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea and the Annual Works on Paper Exhibition at the Royal College of Art. He is an active member of a number of art societies and was chairman of the Twickenham Art Circle and the Richmond Art Society. Until recently he was the deputy chairman of the Richmond upon Thames Arts Council.