My landscape paintings are inspired by the South Downs of Hampshire, where I have regularly walked my dog for several years. They arise from returning to the same paths throughout the changing seasons, observing how light, weather and atmosphere continually transform the familiar. These paintings are not intended simply as records of place, but as responses to the restorative beauty of the landscape and the experience of being present within it. After more than twenty years specialising in photorealistic charcoal drawings of domestic interiors, this series marks a return to painting, my original discipline, having studied BA and MA Painting.

While my earlier drawings explored psychological space through the language of interiors, these paintings turn towards the landscape, seeking to express something that lies beyond representation. Inspired in part by the expressive landscapes of Joan Eardley, I am interested in the point where observation begins to dissolve into abstraction; where colour, gesture and the physical presence of paint evoke atmosphere, movement and memory. Rather than illustrating the landscape, I hope these paintings invite the viewer to experience it as something both seen and deeply felt.

Goodyer Meadows, 2026
oil on board
20 x 20 cm