Brought up walking my dogs everyday in my nearby National Trust woodland, experiencing the change of seasons and different colours and the contrasting structure of trees with and without leaves I want to share their life- enriching experience in my work.
I am passionate about drawing, painting and doing etchings of trees all over the world
(including Greece, Jordan and Morocco) : my mission is to depict them in various forms from rhythmical group compositions to the individual textures of each particular tree and structure within.
I am inspired by drawings and paintings of trees in art from Titian, Constable , Corot, Delacroix, Courbet, Shiskin, Cézanne to Van Gogh and Mondrian. I am also intrigued how trees have a quality that encourages pareidoliacs to see random objects in them and cultures to create stories about them.
My work varies in scale and medium; I naturally work on a large scale which suits the complexity of trees. The size of a work affects the way one enters it: I want to give the viewer the sensation of being present. I often work on location for several months frequently using joined up sheets of A1 paper for practical transportation. I transcribe some of my drawings into etchings or paintings.
In today's world where many people are often in a rush, I feel that it is a real privilege to pause and reflect on life, so my work on location is like a meditation of being present.