This work is all about my soul nourishing love affair with nature. I love to immerse myself in the seas and rivers and streams of Devon and the South West of England, at least when the weather is warm, and to ramble in the woods. A beautiful day for me involves foraging, sketching, or sitting around a fire with friends as the silky darkness descends. So when I can, I like to get out of the city and head 100 miles down the road south-west. Much of my work is inspired by these wild and soothing, colourful, lush, constant yet ever-changing places.

Some of these images are inspired by times spent at Gaia House, a meditation retreat centre I love in Devon and they were published in a book of images and poems that was created as a collaboration between myself and the former Derbyshire Laureate poet, River Wolton, as a response to River’s time on silent meditation retreat there. The book was entitled “Betweenity”. Other paintings you see here are larger scale works now hanging on walls around the UK!

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