Landscape artist
The power of nature remains the foundation to my paintings. We are surrounded by it and usually don't have far to go to reach it in all it's raw beauty, even more so here in Yorkshire and the far reaches of the north. I visualise my landscapes and seldom plan a painting. The sky holds the key to my work, controlling light bursts, muted illumination, deep shadow, angry threats of rain drowning the landscape; dense mist banks or delicate sheets of moisture passing through. Timeless, unless land-marked by working fields with boundaries or evidence of a distant road, path or stone structure. You could be anywhere. I’m inspired through an appreciation of our landscape, how it has been shaped through time and how weather dramatises sequences in cloud and light. The sky causes the landscape comes alive; nature's show of the elements. I imagine somewhere I’d like to be, walk through, drawing the elements together into a timeless landscape. Connect with the painting through mood or memory or view them simply to escape.
