Throughout my career my work has tried to reflect the transient beauty of light and my human and spiritual journey through life, in the earthy sensuality of oil paint.

I have always been fascinated with the conjuring of images through the medium of paint, and I spent much of my fairly solitary childhood painting, as well as reading and working with animals.

As with most artists, the things that excite the child become the essence of themes remembered, lost and rediscovered as the adult – in many different forms.

The beginnings and endings of light

Dawn, sunset, dusk and moonrise (for example, work during 2010 focuses on the brief rose-gold glow of first light on frost)

The hidden, the partially revealed or glimpsed

From the roots of a tree quietly reaching into the red fox earth, to brief glimpses of the high mountains revealed by fast-moving clouds (my Mourne series for example; also the hidden identity and locations of my Striped Skirt series)

Animals

In particular the horse (my earliest memory), its power and beauty, and its mythic association with mankind (Waterhorse, for example)

The elements and their alchemical meeting

Air and earth in the mountains and water in its many states, inviting (my Steps series) or exhilarating (stormy seascapes), or challenging (Into the Darkness, for example)