The weather, and its impact on the land, lies at the heart of my work.
I explore how light, atmosphere, and climate shape our emotional connection to place, using colour, texture, and expressive mark-making to create mood and drama.
When I begin a painting, I rarely know where it will end. I work intuitively, drawn first to particular colours and the desire to experiment. Early layers are playful and exploratory—building foundations through texture, marks, and glazes that create depth and atmosphere.
At some point in the process, the painting suggests a direction—a memory of a place, a fleeting moment, a sense of weather. From there, I work more deliberately, drawing on sketches, experiences, and remembered feelings to refine the composition while allowing the work to retain its openness and mystery.
At times my landscapes hover on the edge of abstraction.
Over the past decade I have deepened my studio practice, experimenting with new materials and approaches while sharing what I’ve learned through workshops and mentoring. My paintings are held in private collections around the world, have appeared in book designs, and feature in Waymaking—an award-winning anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women inspired by landscape.
This October, my debut book Atmospheric Landscapes: Using Oils and Cold Wax (Crowood Press) will be published. The book offers an inspiring and practical guide to creating landscapes rich in texture, layered with light, and alive with atmosphere.
Atmospheric Landscapes shares the techniques that underpin my practice: layering and scraping paint, balancing transparency and opacity, embedding materials such as marble dust and gold leaf, and embracing the space between abstraction and representation. With exercises, examples, and creative insights, it invites artists of all levels to explore a freer, more experimental way of working in oils.