Deep in the Valley Painting

I am a contemporary Welsh artist born and living in the Brecon beacons, Wales. My landscapes are very much inspired by the Welsh landscape I grew up in and the nature that surrounds me. I have a deeply-rooted ancestral connection to this place being one of six generations to settle in this landscape. The ancestral footsteps I retrace hold the remains of an industrial past which form its landscape today. The existence of these paths fades and become impassable as nature takes over but memories are rooted and preserved. Culture, tradition and place are connected by these pathways and when I walk I absorb the sensation, the feeling of belonging to a place. My work embraces the rich and dramatic landscapes that I explore. It is the sensation of the landscape I paint, a way of expression. My paintings display an interwoven connection with human emotion and nature. Retracing memories inform my application of my work, building up a surface that mirrors and echoes my responses to nature. My paintings are about the remembering of moments, the stories that echoes the land and my rooted connection to a place. They re-enact the idea of what the landscape is and has always been. They are about the remembering of a ‘Place’. As seen in 'The World of Interior Magazine' by Conte Nast Publications, April & May issue 2021.