About the Artist

From a very early age, through holidays with my family, I developed a love Britain's countryside and amazingly varied coastal landscape.   Being in an open and endless landscape has always made me feel quite overwhelmed.  There's so much to take in and I want to paint it all! 

Growing up there was always a plentiful supply of pencils, paints, paper, modelling clay and all manner of art materials in my childhood home so it was only natural to me that I used them to explore ideas and feelings about world.  Once at school I had the luck of an interested art teacher, and was inspired to learn how to truly observe the world.  

After loosing myself in a career for a while I rediscovered my artistic self when I moved to rural Southern France, a time and place that gave me space to loose myself in nature.  So I dug out my pencils once again.  I am now living in North Yorkshire, the home of my partner's family, and I take inspiration from the rich and varied landscapes of this county and those available further afield when travelling with my dog Archie.

I find coastlines and rivers particularly appealing as subjects of my art as they  reflect the light in such interesting ways and cause such atmospheric scenes. I also love framing in close and looking at the intimate landscapes between trees and nature.  I am particularly happy when I am able to make the kind of marks that capture the impression of the subject with the least fuss and effort.  This takes lots of practice and I continually  work to improve my skills needed to paint and draw competently.  

I hope that those who look at my pictures find something familiar in their experience of nature.