My painting is a process of sensory map making – how the landscape is glimpsed: the light and colours; the textures and feeling; the smell – all of which contribute to the visceral portrayal of a sense of place. My paintings are often accompanied by original prose poems which augment the painting’s experience. My paintings draw inspiration from the dramatic Scottish coastline, the quality of light, crystal seas, rugged mountains and arching skies, as well as the forms, colours and textures of the environment as the natural world slowly reclaims and repairs. I am fascinated by the edges where cultivation meets wilderness, the tiny cracks where life thrives and ancient traces of past habitations hold out against the relentless onslaught of the elements.