only nature matters now...

I think it’s my duty as an artist to do all I can to draw attention to the beauty of nature in the hope of reminding and inspiring us all to love and cherish it…

I wonder if there’s a language that can be made in colour, paint and gesture that’s good enough to stand in for the ecstasy of nature…

Moving into the new studio seems to have had a dramatic effect on my work. I think the room to move, the light and the views out to the countryside beyond through the vast studio windows has brought nature firmly into my imaginative awareness…

Studies and colour notations underpin the progress of paintings. The speed of digital painting has always been useful for making rapid sketches…

…but I love to spend days exploring the possibilities of each idea in small scale, oil paint studies.

It’s a time to explore each individual colour in relation to the whole and play with composition, space and colour mood.

Each idea is so infinitely variable. This is the chance to focus the direction and ambition of the larger scale works that follow.

it’s a search for paint in its most sensual and voluptuous state… blending and mixing, till it’s the perfect, creamy consistency…