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To varying degrees of focus, landscape is an important element in my work and I am fascinated by transient effects of light and weather and the ever-moving, ever-changing nature of the sea. Increasingly I am exploring a need for space and pause, both an acknowledgement and acceptance of the world we now inhabit (with its layers of ever-changing technology, fleeting images and vicarious experiences) and also a need to leave that behind at times, to connect with something more elemental, timeless, quiet. The paintings are not always an attempt to depict that pause but sometimes more a part of my journey to find it – sometimes full of joy and light, sometimes more conflicted.

Using a wide range of media, the paintings begin life on the floor, building up fluid layers of paint and all the unpredictability that brings. In subsequent layers, I try to direct and harness this unpredictability to some extent, responding to the marks and to my own sense of the space that emerges. My painting practice is active, expressive, direct, but there are also quieter more analytical moments of gently directing fluid paint or carefully sanding back to find and place earlier marks alongside later ones.

Born and brought up in Bath and now living in Yorkshire, I gained a First Class honours degree in Fine Art and have been working and exhibiting as a professional artist since graduating in 2001. As well as experiencing the landscape through drawing and painting I love to walk, run and swim outside. A keen traveller, I have painted in the Himalayas, Canadian Rockies and Kenya’s Rift Valley, as well as closer to home in many parts of Britain and Europe. My work is held in private collections in America, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, and I exhibit in galleries across the UK.

Selected recent exhibitions include Affordable Art Fair (Hampstead, 2023), 'A Time To See' group show (Inspired By gallery, Danby, 2024), York Open Studios (2024) and North Yorkshire Open Studios (2024).