Before the Edge of Wilderness explores the moor as a threshold space — land that feels on the brink of something untamed, yet shaped by centuries of weather and passage.

These paintings emerge from walking the uplands, where sky presses close and the horizon feels both near and unreachable. Working in oils and cold wax, I build and excavate the surface repeatedly, allowing textures to form through layering, scraping and reworking. The process mirrors the erosion of peat, the scouring of wind, and the slow accumulation of time.

The works move between abstraction and memory. Rather than depict a specific place, they hold the sensation of standing just before the wild — in that charged space where exposure, silence and vastness meet.