In my professional life as a landscape architect, my work involved shaping and influencing the natural and man-made landscapes in which we live, work and enjoy our leisure time. In my private life, I have always had a passion for interpreting the landscape through painting. Since I recently stopped working as a landscape architect, I am enjoying having the time and headspace to produce new material inspired by the endlessly varied landscapes of West Dorset, my new home.

I love to walk and to go birdwatching, which takes me into many different types of landscape, both inland and coastal, and I never do either without my camera. Each work starts with a series of images captured while I'm out in the open air, which I then interpret in oil paint on canvas.

There are 3 gallery sections on the site. The first is images of recent commissions. The second shows images from my current project, ‘A Year on Hardown Hill’. This is one of my favourite haunts and lies between Bridport and Lyme Regis, just inland from Golden Cap. It includes a stunning area of rare lowland heath and has far-reaching views  across Lyme Bay to the south and extending as far as Somerset to the north.

The third is a selection of paintings that were exhibited at my first solo exhibition in Oxford, 'Reflections on Landscape', drawn from paintings completed over the last four decades. These represent my personal response to the wide variety of landscapes that have inspired me over the years.