My work is driven by a deep love for the beauty of nature. I return repeatedly to the wilder places of the British Isles, drawing inspiration from the far south west of England and the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. It is my dream to one day travel further north, to Shetland, Faroe, Norway and Iceland and to make large scale canvases in response to the colours and light of these places. In London, the dance of the sky, the rhythms of the tidal Thames and witnessing the changing seasons in the trees, all hold a thread to the inner need for nature.

My experiences of landscape inspire explorative and meditative journeys on canvas, the act of painting forming an important bridge between outer nature and my own inner nature. I desire to create work that evokes the feeling of nature, without being representational of place in the traditional sense. I am challenged to discover what it is about particular colours and forms that make them beautiful, that makes them appear to breathe and come alive.

I delight in the physicality of paint and enjoy utilising different painterly media in my explorations. Thick layers of oil paint, mud and sand - the stuff and substance of the earth - thin veils of watercolour, delicate use of acrylic, and lines and marks of graphite and charcoal, are built up and scraped back many times over, to create a new environment of paint.

I graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Fine Art with English Literature from Canterbury Christ Church College in 1999, following the completion of a Foundation diploma at Camberwell College of Arts. I currently work from my studio in Brockley, south east London.