I have grown up, and still live in Kent - the Garden of England. I don't know what lead me to develop a love of gardening and nature or why I should have felt so receptive to the landscape in all it's different moods. I am fascinated by it's features - many created directly or indirectly by Man, and since an early age these things have excited and moved me and my paintings reflect my desire to convey something of this wonder.

My paintings attempt to fix fleeting memories and experiences into something more permanent; simplifying a scene in order to intensify the vision. The pictures are often of landscape, man-made rather than untouched wilderness, and although figures rarely appear in my work, there is a feeling that people are nearby or have just departed. Indeed the images show Man's influence on the natural world, whether through topiary in a garden, an untidy corner on a farm or apple trees grown in ordered rows and pruned into artificial forms.

These days we are, more than ever, separated from the rhythms of the natural world. We are inclined to see our activities (such as buildings, roads, walls, even gardens) as separate from Nature. However, in a way, they are as much a part of Nature as a blackbird's nest or an anthill, though most of us would agree not always as beautiful. This almost pantheistic view, seeing the life force running through all things, places Man very much in Nature and requires that we respect our position in it.

There is often the feeling in the paintings of 'the glimpsed scene'. That private moment of heightened perception when, amid seemingly ordinary surroundings, a discovery is made and strong emotions felt.