As an artist keenly interested in the natural world, quiet wild edges are my preferred muse. Based in East Sussex, light, colour and textures drive my compositions. Painting in water based media is my preferred methodology, pushing boundaries between realism and abstraction, allowing the pigments to give me serendipitous discoveries. Using photography from local walks as an aid memoir my intention is for a progression from what is seen and observed to a more personal reality, recalling the uneasy balance achieved between nature and the man-made environments of farmland and coast with their wild corridors.