My work often has links and visual themes; for example, I love trees and evening light, the challenge of the mountains and shifting light in the Lakes is exciting and I spend some weeks a year in Cumbria. Helmsley, the North Yorkshire Moors and coast are so familiar to me from my childhood, but I am always in search of new experience and I feel as if my life is increasingly more focused. I want to use this energy to create precious lasting paintings, which have integrity. I find inspiration in music, poetry and literature as well as nature. Music from a wide variety of genres and artists is always played when I work. Listening to music as I paint and travel gives me the emotional energy to sustain the amount of painting I do each day, and adds drama to the work.
