About Me

An artist's studio with numerous paintings and sketches on the wall and windows, a colorful palette on the table, a wooden easel, a teal armchair with a sleeping brown and white dog, and art supplies and tools scattered throughout the room.

Primarily a landscape painter, my work serves as a visual and emotional diary. Immersed in the Dorset countryside I record the agricultural landscape in my sketch books and memory. 

Back in the studio I explore my emotional response to the land. I am particularly interested by humankind’s footprint and the patterns and shapes curated nature leaves in its’ wake. Painting the poetry of the mundane, revealing the mystery behind often ignored, every-day man-made objects, placed in the landscape is a constant challenge and a joy.

A woman outdoors in a green field, wearing a brown hat, a green sweater, and a scarf, smiling while holding a painter's palette. Behind her, there is an easel with a landscape painting of rolling hills, trees, and clouds.

The shifting light and seasons that continually change these imprints only add to my state of wonder. The wild nature of ancient oaks, the plough forged furrows across sweeping fields, the hard lines of solid buildings – all the elements dance together. And I find myself often simultaneously horrified by the destruction of the wild spaces and seduced by the exquisite colours and shapes revealed by such disruptions.

‘Standing still and learning to be astonished’

Mary Oliver