My paintings are primarily concerned with the landscape, hovering between abstraction and figuration.

The images do not usually depict an actual place but evolve from something I have seen – a half-hidden field pattern, old lichened stone, sunburnt moorland grass, the drama of high tide.

I enjoy walking and exploring the landscape but prefer to create my work in the studio where I feel free to experiment, building up textures, often in several layers, and scratching and over painting until I am left with a remaining essence and a feeling for the natural forms of the landscape.