I studied art and architecture at the Harris College in Preston in the 1960s before spending most of the next thirty years overseas.  My love of the west of Wales, its light, land and sea was refocussed and intensified on my return.

But my ability to walk the land and shore is increasingly curtailed by arthritis.  My paintings are now mostly made in the studio and on a smaller scale than before.

Contrarily, this is not a limitation but a liberation as it enforces a separation from the actuality of the subject.  My work is increasingly introspective, drawing more from memory and recalled emotion: the distillation of the complexity of reality to an essence, leading to an intensity I feel is more in tune with the spirituality of the land, sea and light of Wales.

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