A December Dawn Painting

I am a painter inspired by the landscape of the North East and most of my work is based on an ancient mining landscape called Cockfield Fell where I walk nearly every day. My joyous abstract expressionist paintings are a result of my exploration of the interplay between what is seen and what is felt about the landscape. I use elements of what I see and combine these with my imagination to create my paintings. I am fascinated by the Fell’s strange, other-worldly, abstract shapes defined by the morning shadows and framed by big dramatic skies. Its pools, pathways, mounds, dips and curves are my motifs. I decide which shapes and colours to play with, then draw and apply layers of paint, using loose gestural marks until I find a balance and a painterly world emerges which celebrates this landscape.