About

My current work explores the anthropocene and the implications of humanity’s interventions on the natural world.

The architecture of land, sky and sea draws me into the deep contemplation of the vastness of the universe and our place in time. I feel the weight and wonder of millennia before me and a fear for what will come. Landscape, space and light trigger a showreel of emotion: joy, sadness, yearning, awe and loss that are explored across my subjects.

I live in Cambridge, UK and I am fascinated by the strange and beautiful landscapes that were created and transformed by drainage of the land and it’s subsequent intensive farming in East Anglia.

Traces from the past remain: the ploughed fields are host to ghostly remnants of rivers, ancient water ways and silty deposits. Here lies a rich story buried within the land – or perhaps it is the legacy of what may come to be once again.

Water is a both a metaphor and a source of life within my work. I explore viscosity, translucency, and fluidity of my mediums and often add texture from site-specific material to my surfaces.

I work from initial sketches and photographs en plein air, then develop them in my studio, working at speed to capture the light and the feeling that ‘a sense of a place’ gives me, often on several pieces simultaneously. My work is an expression of what I feel, not a literal representation. I want my viewers to feel the energy of an environment and to contemplate our relationship with the natural world.