Inspiration

My studio is surrounded by beautiful and varied countryside.

I am very lucky that I am ten minutes from the sea, ten minutes from woodland, ten minutes from open downs and ten minutes from precious mud-flats.

Every day I walk for two hours every day. Rain or shine.

On these walks I get my inspiration.

I am hugely inspired by natural forms and the rhythms of the seasons and tides.

I have been painting long enough to know that my painting follows a yearly cycle.

In Spring my work has a lust for life.

In Summer an easy optimistic joy.

In Autumn my work is more thoughtful and sombre.

In Winter it has a starker quality.

Yesterday the clouds reminded me of Tiepolo's painting. Associations like this permeate my work.