My practice centres around trying to evoke the feeling of a landscape at a particular time of day. I find contrast between the huge skies over the Somerset Levels and the dramatic falling away of the land in Cornwall challenging and exhilarating.

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Some of my paintings are started in plein air and finished in the studio. I tend to immerse myself in the sense of the light I am trying to capture by taking hundreds of photographs and plastering the walls of my studio with them. I believe in thinking ‘abstractly’ while painting ‘descriptively’.  In order to describe the sense of the time and place I will sometimes move trees and change scale to achieve a certain form which is more evocative, in an attempt to get deeper into the sense of the landscape.