‘I am endlessly fascinated by those things unseen in our landscape which are nevertheless ‘felt’ and by the duality of the historical geology of a landscape, for example a high moor having once been beneath a sea. The secret life of the wild animals that live amongst us and the way that man has shaped the land through his tracks, farming and industry also play their part in my work. Each painting captures a moment in time, the land and the sea are never still, the currents continue to run beneath the stillest waters, and deep deep below the most tranquil landscape water runs through the centuries to the sea.’