Within each media I find a different set of possibilities for expression. Painting has allowed me to develop and explore a longstanding fascination and engagement with landscape, my home, beside the river Dart, has been a returning source of inspiration for my painting, which in turn maps my changing understanding of both the river and the landscape. These abstract landscapes are not simply a series of representations, but efforts to express something of this developing relationship - they are as much an internal conversation between myself and my environment as they are external representations. I am continually drawn to the evocative power of texture and colour, layering strokes into patterns and arrangements that give the painting a tactile visual identity

My work is not one coherent body of thinking, there is no philosophy that connects everything I do, but rather the work if taken as a whole is a celebratory journey around things I have seen, people I have met and how it affected me. I try to give my work the sincerity, attention, and humor with which I try to live - if the work documents anything it is an emotional, aesthetic and human biography of my own life experience.