Many happy days exploring the beauty of our Northern moors, fells, mountains and coast inspired me to begin painting. Much of these land and seascapes have a raw, often majestic beauty and my art is a means by which I try and communicate the feeling of being immersed, almost consumed by their beauty. The paintings are loose and often abstract interpretations of those explorations. Mainly created in acrylic paints, I do use mixed media, oil, pastel and watercolour