“My work is influenced by developments in contemporary landscape painting, and also by a longstanding interest in Abstract Expressionism. As a result, my paintings often exhibit a tension between representation and expression. My work is always inspired by specific places, but I am most interested in recording how it feels to be within the landscape.

 Paintings grow from live encounters with the landscape.I produce rapid gestural sketches during these excursions, as well as taking photographs and short videos. Sometimes a painting develops directly from one preparatory image; others evolve from a number of sketches and compositions, or from memory. Drawing is central to my practice, to harness a sense of immediacy and produce dynamic impressions of the landscape.

 Each painting is an attempt to record the place I’ve visited, but also to articulate my personal response to that place; to capture an intangible moment or recreate a memory.”