I make landscape and botanical paintings, often En plein air in a variety of mediums using oils, acrylics, watercolour, and water soluble wax pastel.

What I'm drawn to initially is colour, light and interesting shapes in nature. But more specifically is the the feeling you get when peeking through to a scene that's naturally framed by looking beyond what's in the foreground, nosing beyond a bush, or noticing the play of light reflecting on or through something. I enjoy showing how beautiful flowers are when they're dying. When the colours melt, often becoming more translucent, the shapes contort into something new and unexpected.

I hope people will take away a childlike wonder and a sense of magic in nature from seeing my work. Like a scene from a fairy-tale.

Painted as part of the Delamore Arts Plein air painting competition in May this year, I won the prize for "Best Floral".

I created it using a mixture of watercolours in pan & pens, pencil, water soluble wax pastels, acrylic paint and pens (whatever I had in my box of tricks, that might suit the moment!) on watercolour paper.

Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper

28x16cm

 Framed