I have a practical background in the visual arts, although over recent years my academic and professional work has focussed mainly on its theoretical and historical aspects. I studied Art History at the University of Plymouth in the late '90s and since graduating I have worked widely in the museums and galleries sector mostly with collections and exhibitions. In 2005 I independently curated a successful multidisciplinary group exhibition at the Zion Arts Centre in Manchester, titled Being here – Being there: Landscape, Memory, Identity.

Over recent years I have begun to focus on my creative abilities and explore my artistic ideas and interests related to landscape and organic materials. What has manifest from this artistic exploration are a number of projects in different mediums - painting, photography, video, earthwork, installation and organic sculpture.


At the very heart of all my work lies a search for some kind of spiritual or divine order in nature, and furthermore an exploration into the empirical tensions between the ‘natural’ and the ‘artificial’. My works are essentially concerned with an investigation into organic processes and states through ‘man-made’ intervention and representation of ‘landscape’. The vast conceptual divide between ‘geological time’ (deep time) and ‘human time’ is a phenomenon which I attempt to address through my practice, especially in my current Gaia Project video-works. My own personal Celtic ancestry and heritage is also a significant source of inspiration for my work. Either literally or often abstractly, I have chosen to associate myself with Celtic folklore and the spiritual legacy of my ancestors. Many Celtic (pagan) beliefs, rites and rituals are rooted in the landscape and the natural environment, and I derive my own identity from the same source as these ancient peoples. To walk the same land as my ancestors once did is a constant fascination for me….

I work with landscape (or at least the ‘idea’ of it) because to my unfailing awe and wonder, I suppose that I don’t really understand it (and my relationship to it) – hopefully I never will. So if my work has any value and purpose at all it is to be an elusive guide to assist me in comprehending the natural environments I encounter.

There is one specific question that I wish to ask (a crucial concern in my own work):
How does Landscape inform and define our personal and collective identity as human beings?
…I’m sure we would all have a different answer to that.

I am a member of:

• Arts In The Peak
• The Green Party
• Cloud Appreciation Society