A Place of Beauty Amidst the Wild

Oil on Canvas.

Based on a walled garden on the small Island of Lindisfarne (off the coast of Northumberland). The garden seemed a peaceful area within a fragile yet harsh environment.

Back in the studio... First paintings...

"Imagined Mountain Range" Oil on Canvas.

I'm interested in creating places, these invented landscapes serve as myths. These places could exist, yet they show no specific features. I suppose what I'm doing is creating a place and then deconstructing it to its quintessential form, leaving only suggestiveness rather than certainty.



"Imagined Coastline" Oil on Canvas.

Although these places are nowhere in particular, I have drawn inspiration from the Northumberland coastline. I find Northumberland intriguing in both aesthetics and history. There are more castles in Northumberland than in any other county in England and this rich history still seems apparent today. As James Joyce once said "Places remember events..."