I am a contemporary landscape painter.
My work aims to explore the power of stillness that exists in the connected space where sky and the land meet.
I grew up in Cambridge and the East Anglian Fens inspired by the wide, dramatic open skies and the far reaching landscapes. My work draws on this early relationship between land and sky.
Returning to my innate understanding of these liminal spaces in the landscape my acrylic and mixed media work is now focused on capturing the sense of consolation in the still spaces in the Chiltern Hills where I live. My practice is also driven by the emotional context of the landscapes that I feel constantly drawn to, the dramatic fells of the North Yorkshire Dales and the wilds of the Scottish Western Isles.
Working predominantly in acrylic and mixed media layers I am excited by the immediacy of the movement of paint to capture my emotional relationship to a given landscape.
My collections include intuitive initial abstract studies, textural landscapes and semi abstract sky scapes.
Art has the power to still, calm, console and connect us to the spaces we encounter enabling us to touch that very strong sense of what it is to be a small part of an infinite space.