Having grown up in the Severn Valley, the distant hills of Wales and the rolling Cotswolds were a constant backdrop to my landscape. I now live in East Kent and it has taken lockdown to trigger my interest in flat marshland. I still yearn for mountains and hills but at least flat fields are easier to walk on as the years progress!
Walking and observing are an essential ingredient of my work and drawing what I see is the first stage on the road to creating a painting. But once that drawing is on the board, it becomes mine to edit.
One thing that has stayed constant over many years is my love of pastel. I often sit and watch the sun go down in one of my paintings. The colours mutate and change as the
