The Fossil Hunters

I have been steeped in a love of landscape all my life. I studied the science of landforms, particularly chalk grasslands, as an undergraduate at Reading University and went on to complete a PhD in Desert  Geomorphology. I am particularly interested in the boundaries and junctions between water and land; land and wind; land and the living world of the biosphere.

 

I have worked variously for the BBC and for Local Government, but finally turned to my first love of painting full time in my mid-50s when I moved to Devon. Part of my method is to walk, walk and walk some more in the landscapes that I love. There is a surprisingly strong link between my PhD studies and Devon – 250 million years ago this area was a raging desert.

 

My work is known for its accurate observation and some of my natural history work is of the ultra-realistic style, encompassing narrative in the finished paintings. My sea and shore studies are similarly closely observed, and at the same time capture the whole spirit of familiar views. Recent work has been of more quirky subjects, sometimes edible and often with an emotional context.

 

In the last three years I have had work exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and the Society of Botanical artists Open Exhibitions at the Mall Galleries in London for which I have received two prizes.

Watercolour on Paper

55x41x2cm

Framed under glass