"I make paintings of landscape in a contemporary manner deriving source material from locations in the Scarborough, North York Moors and coastal areas.

My overall methodology involves finding a balance between representation and abstraction and this is done by making specific reference to the particularities of location and the manipulation of formal elements, in particular, the transformation of grids and geometrical schemata.  Colour use is emphatic to extend the range of mood and meaning.

My intention is to make transactions between the organic and the ordered, and the ambition is to create metaphors for the complex layering of relationships between ourselves and the common ground we share and care for."