About me

In essence, my work is an ode to nature. A deep love affair with this exquisite world that surrounds us. The oceans, lands, skies and the way that light interacts with the physicality of this earth are mesmerising to me. I paint in an emotive form of realism because it allows me to confide in the viewer my absolute awe at what already lies around us every day. The sense of peace that a tranquil ocean with harmoniously coloured skies can evoke within my soul. The feeling of sadness that a foreboding sky can bring. The spirit of hope that a single ray of sunshine elicits, often mirrors the depth of my feelings. My paintings bare my soul and are an attempt to connect with the viewer. To find resonance through the harmonies of our earth.
My paintings act as a reminder, to myself as well, of the peace, joy, harmony, love and belonging we can find every day by pausing our striving for perfection within the single entity of ourselves and turning to nature's infinitely present solace.
What I paint is rarely a single, faithful record of a place. I return to a scene again and again, through memory, photographs, sketches, and by the time I reach the canvas, the work has become a compilation: a gathering of moments, an accentuation of emotions, an exalted symbol of belonging and connection that always lies within and around us. 

Nature does not speak in one register. It offers us everything — the glassy stillness of an early morning sea, the slow drama of a storm building on a mountain horizon, the hush of a valley after rain, the blaze of colour that arrives without warning and is gone before you can name it. I am not drawn to any one of these above the others. I am drawn to the full conversation — to the way calm and intensity exist alongside each other, each giving the other meaning. It is the contrast between them that allows us to truly witness beauty. Without the stillness, we would not feel the weight of the storm. Without the storm, we would not know how deep the stillness goes.

This is what I hope lives inside each painting — not drama for its own sake, but the full and honest range of what nature offers, held together in a single moment of colour and light. Beneath every canvas, no matter its mood, there is a quiet sense of joy in the wholeness of it all. A recognition that every register nature speaks in — fierce or tender, vast or intimate — is part of the same profound and beautiful whole. And that we, standing before it, are part of that whole too.

This is why I paint. Not to capture perfection, but to be present. Not to offer escape, but to offer belonging — a moment of rest for your nervous system, and a reminder, however brief, that you are held by something larger than yourself.  A homecoming of sorts.