Walking, photographing and painting in landscape has connected my work to direct visual experience of the world, enabling me to make vivid responses, alongside sculpted animals, human forms and objects. Visual aspects of composition and material are closely tied to literary qualities of narrative sequence and time, intrinsic to landscape. I am particularly interested in places where human activity and objects interact with the surrounding environment to suggest Art historical settings, such as an idyll or arcadia. Social history and allusion to possible futures is inevitably interwoven into these settings to create complex metaphors. This could be for example, a group of people fishing and picnicking by a river, a combine- harvester slowly being driven across a field or a post-industrial zone, which has been partly absorbed into surrounding fields

The woven straw machines: tanks, planes and figures, in the Archive section of my website, made in the 1990's from the materiality of landscape: fields of wheat, carry themes of pastoralism and industrialisation, which continue to permeate my work.