From a child collecting buckets of crabs on the shoreline of the Stour Estuary or jam-jars full of sticklebacks caught in local streams, my heart has always been rural and coastal. The natural environment and its myriad of inhabitants with their interwoven relationships has been a constant fascination and the enduring locus of my artistic practice.


I am a contemporary Land Artist, creating artefacts using earth pigment paints, as embodiments of earth-human relationships. Best described as a ‘SEEKER | SHARER’, my practice embraces collaborative field research in the form of ‘nomadic-sporadic’ walks, wild pigment foraging, paint-making, participatory events and studio-based activity. I am fascinated by ‘Deep Mapping’ and rural psychogeography. I work with interdisciplinary partners and communities to reinterpret the ecological relationships within the natural environment. 


I spend time walking, drawing, videoing, collecting earths, histories and stories, note-taking and documenting experiences, sensations and observations. I return to the studio to process all that I have gathered and create my own earth-pigment paints. 


My paintings are created in collaboration with the wild earth pigments collected during the walks. The paints are applied in layers, alternating marks controlled and described by my hand, with other gravity-led layers which expose the natural textures and character of the paints, unearthing and narrating the stories held in the land. Broad sections of dipped or poured pigment and texture characterise and counterpoint the linear and hand-shaped qualities in many of the works. 


At times anthropomorphic, my works adopt an animist view of the world.


I studied Fine Art at Loughborough College of Art and Design and gained my Masters at De Montfort University. My work has been exhibited extensively including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and The Jerwood Drawing Prize. I am a Royal West of England Academician, contributing to research forums including ‘Carbon – Borders – Voices’, ‘Walking The Land’, ‘PLaCE International’ and ‘Space | Place | Practice’.


I live and work in the Blackdown Hills National Landscape in Somerset.

A man with a beard is standing in front of two paintings