When painting landscapes, I aim to create an expression that contains some physical likeness, while capturing the poetry of the interaction between land and sky, and between the inner and outer worlds.

My landscape paintings are, of course, formed by gathering visual information outdoors, but they also require a conceptual framework.

The insights of mediævalist Alfred Siewers on landscape have been most valuable to me. He sees landscape as “… the physical environment that mediates between the human mind and nature”.

I think it no surprise that such thoughts stem from a study of the mediæval period, where active engagement with the physical world was infused with a spiritual and intellectual dimension, with body and mind unified.

Seeing a world of such richness, woven from so many threads, fills the land with meaning and significance for me.