My practice investigates landscape as embodied encounter. Working primarily from mountain environments, I develop paintings governed by a single dominant atmospheric force – compression, fracture or release – through which space and scale are organised.

My paintings are rooted in the mountains, weather and waters of the landscapes I begin to know intimately, particularly the Lake District and the Cairngorms. They begin in experience — walking, observing, sketching, remembering and being physically present within a changing landscape — but move beyond record or description to interpret, translate connection.

Rather than depicting place descriptively, the work concentrates on structural hierarchy and imbalance. Areas are deliberately sacrificed so that others intensify. Light remains conditional and transient; land holds enduring weight. Each painting is resolved only when no addition strengthens it and no removal clarifies it.

Two interlaced threads run through my work. One explores mountain weather: its movement, force, atmosphere and capacity to alter our sense of scale and vulnerability, the other increasingly moves towards abstraction - from the same starting point. Exploring moments, memory, space and a fascination with painting.

The resulting images occupy a space between abstraction and geography. They do not aim to represent landscape as a view, but to translate the heightened, involuntary awareness that arises when the body stands within weather – alert, exposed and momentarily insignificant.

Water has become an important part of the journey, extending personal experience within these landscapes. More recently, a long love affair with Nan Shepherd’s "The Living Mountain" has opened a new direction, deepening my interest in the intimate, physical relationship between ourselves and nature.

My work is represented by Northern Lights Gallery in Keswick, EVAN Gallery in Penrith, Gallery Northwest in Brampton and the Braemar Gallery in Royal Deeside — a particularly meaningful new relationship, given its setting among the landscapes so deeply associated with Nan Shepherd and the Cairngorms.