Silent stillness and transient atmospherics draw me to paint the water and its reflections. There is a mystical infinite quality to the light, in particular the exquisite, vaporous and ephemeral luminosity, as it moves through the trees or behind the hills and mountains and reflects back onto the water, especially at first or last light, the threshold where sky and land touch.

I try to capture the fleeting moment, just before the sunlight burns away the mist or the light fading into dusk, in an attempt to suspend it in time. The absence of any human presence is a deliberate decision, lending a timeless quality, an attempt to transport the viewer back to a past millennia when our impact on the planet was more benign. I take reference from my long walks living by the river and the arcadian landscapes of the 17th and 18th century.

I would like people to see my work as ethereal, meditative, with a dreamlike atmosphere. I hope that they serve as a visual sanctuary, a quiet space, a conduit of stillness, inviting viewers to pause, breathe and reconnect. Ultimately, I hope that they act as a quiet resistance against a world that too often prizes speed over sensitivity, noise over nuance. I hope that they offer a place of solace and introspection.

I paint oil on linen, with plant based mediums, applying many thin translucent oil glazes, each one dry before applying the next, sometimes with metallic pigment applied earlier, in an attempt to capture the allusion of movement as the viewer moves around the painting and the light conditions change in the room.