My work explores the energy of place: the visual and emotional experience of landscape, and the stories we attach to the places that shape our lives. I am drawn to the changing light, colour and form of the natural world, and to the powerful emotional responses it can evoke.

I am particularly interested in the idea of peak experience — moments of overwhelming joy, connection or transcendence often encountered through nature and art. Painting allows me to explore these experiences and, in doing so, create new stories around a place and the people with whom it is shared. More recently, my work has begun to consider our relationship with the natural world. I have been exploring my fascination with wild landscapes and how inaccessible wild nature is. My landscapes are my way of accessing that elusive wildness.

I work predominantly in oil on a large scale, building paintings through layers of paint and mixed media in my studio at the bottom of my garden. My process is intuitive and energetic; I work quickly, responding to the visual information, thoughts and feelings gathered from particular places and experiences.

My influences include Frank Auerbach, Willem de Kooning, Rubens and Turner, particularly their expressive approaches to colour, movement, material and the physical act of painting.

Over the past twenty years I have developed a professional practice through exhibitions, gallery representation and direct relationships with collectors. In recent years I have also curated and produced my own exhibitions, building a strong and engaged collector base.