Started three years ago – and has changed quite a bit! It’s a lot looser and more flowing than before to emphasise the softer lines of Dartmoor yet retain the isolated location and changing light of this distinctive feature of the moor. Steeperton sits blocking the end of the Taw Valley. It rises up forming…

I consider this is now finished. It’s been on and off the easel for the past three years! Following my current theme on abstraction by stratification of the natural environment. This depicts a deep river valley, Tavy Cleve, on Dartmoor overshadowed by Ger Tor. On bad weather days the valley feels menacing and oppressive. The…

My other passion is rock climbing. I was a member of our local mountain rescue team and quickly became addicted to climbing. Rock climbing routes are all graded according to their difficulty. Climbers are always striving to achieve the next highest grade. Each rock face may contain many routes to the summit, and with differing…

Just finished this small painting; ‘Vibrant Landscape‘. It measures 16 x 16 inch. Painted in acrylics on canvas. I hope it evokes the movement and colour-rich environment of the outdoors. I find it’s a case of sitting and observing a landscape – in my case the high moors of Dartmoor. After a while you notice…

My latest painting; ‘Maria Orientem’. 30 x 24 inch. Acrylic on canvas. In this current theme of the changing environment, in particular global warming, I wanted to show the effect the rise of sea level has on the world. The loss of land and breaking up of communities and cultures leaves us with an uncertain,…

The immense forces of earthquake and volcanic action over millions of years have formed the iconic strata of granite rocks. In this painting, ‘Mons Igneous’, this shattering, movement and repeated metamorphosis evokes an emotion of scale, instability and our smallness in relation to the hidden forces around us. We float, serenely on, upon our rocky…