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Landscape regularly has me enthralled, but while I love the untamed and moody glamour of, say, a wild, storm-raked mountain, it's often the tamer, more domesticated scenery that draws me in.
A lot of it's about layers. If humans live somewhere, they adapt the world around them over and over until it becomes a palimpsest, a document rewritten time and again, sometimes leaving evident or hidden traces, sometimes not. Under this school sports field is a mosaic, the brick outline of a roman bathhouse; under that new development was a tapestry of thin, battered concrete, swathes of coltsfoot, bee orchids; under a copse or a quiet, ploughed field, who knows? The layers, whether destroyed or still existing, are a pairing of place and memory - either ours or that of the land itself. Our own memories, too, tangle with landscape features that might become uncoupled over time from whatever they originally signalled but are still landmarks on personal maps; fragments of stories, told or untold. I explore ideas mostly through printmaking and book arts, and sell much of the time through exhibitions, fairs and open studio events, but please get in touch if something catches your eye and you'd like to know more. 
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Events for 2020