I am an Oxford artist working mostly in watercolours. I like to find inspiration for my paintings in the Oxfordshire countryside, on canal waterways, in Oxford city, and on vacation. I respond to the subject of the English countryside in a sentimental way with the sadness of gazing upon an ancient way of life that is, like all others before it, passing away into the annals of history.

I seek to respond to the world around me by recording what I see, both people and places, in a sensitive way, being true to the reference but looking for elements that appeal to me: the colour of fallen leaves; the lichen on masonry; the shapes of sheep in a field.

We human beings are becoming too divorced from the natural world and it leaves us feeling on edge, over-stimulated, empty. I use art to reconnect myself with the divinity of the natural in sky and tree, animals and people. If the viewer can in turn connect with the message of what I have created then something beautiful has been achieved, artist as servant to the love of art in all of us. It points to a higher truth if the same feeling can originate in the souls of strangers.