I like to explore many of the same themes and images, the tension between abstraction and representation, the duel between techniques and moods.

Colour plays the main role in what I create. A high or low perspective of densely knotted vegetation, a frantic pattern of grained wood or choking greenery that is so visually claustrophobic it has to be rescued by some sense of the landscape it lies in. I see it as bolts of illumination.

I find it hard to describe what I specifically want to convey through my work. They are made through feelings rather than words. If I was forced to sum up what I want to express, I would describe them as dreamlike and nostalgic yet contemporary. They speak of memories and the endurance of images. Atmospheric and melancholic, they are inconsequential moments that are highly charged.

As a landscape artist I endeavor to inspire and nurture our love of the natural world.

The Scottish Borders and South West Scotland is a wonderful place to live amongst a large community of artists in an area which provides so many of the necessary elements for landscape paintings.