I was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire in 1972. I lived in Poole, Dorset until 2000. Since then I have lived in Chard, south Somerset.

I completed my Foundation Diploma in Art at Shelley Park, Bournemouth in 1992 and graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 1995. I now work as a Trainer Assessor with JHP Training, a national company delivering Vocational Qualifications and also recently with Devon Adult Learning as an art tutor. In my spare time I enjoy walking and interpreting this into art; in particular I enjoy the South West Coast and Dartmoor.

I am particularly influenced by and admire people who have made work about Wessex, such as Thomas Hardy, Paul Nash and Eric Ravillious. I also admire the work of Edward Hopper, Paul Klee, Fay Weldon and Caspar David Friedrich.


As an artist, I am interested in light, place and texture.

My research into making artwork involves an interest in nature, history and geology. Walking is an important part of my working process, getting to know a particular area well and understanding how it was created. Much of my work has come from places that have meaning or personal significance to me. I enjoy finding out about places that I have visited, either through maps, literature or documents and conveying this level of interest through the detail in my work.

I am also interested in the way nature manifests itself on human objects and how it abstracts these forms, such as overgrown remains, weathering, seasonal change and decay. I look for evidence of human activity changing landscapes into places, creating unique locations which are affective, uplifting or threatening.

I particularly like using photography as a starting point for my work, the recording and movement of light fascinates me and is the main reason why I only work in black and white. It allows me to focus on surface detail and scale; photographic representation enables me to represent the notion of experience and memory in landscape. It is also important to me to think about how we might be affected by these experiences of landscape and our current relationship with the environment.