The below text gives an idea of what motivates this body of work that spans four decades. It is not intended as a “statement” but gives various points of entry to begin a dialogue.

The earliest images are from 1984 - from before my art school training. In 2010, I picked up this thread again because I realised that it was a way of perceiving the world that was meaningful to me.

This work keeps developing as more connections become apparent. My interest lies in the creation of a continuous narrative through landscape, that jumps through time and space, that allows digression and return. The scenes that interest me are of arrival, portals, paths, obstacles, steps, doorways, bridges, hiding places and departures. Different sequences of images can create a narrative following paths along coasts, down roads and through forests.

I am interested in Shan-Shui traditional paintings that depict landscapes where the elements take on a symbolic relevance in a visual story that describes a journey through life. Traditional hand-held painted scrolls of journeys through landscapes are a format that resonates with my way of working. The place and date of the image is only important as it is the spatial and temporal location during my time. The chronology is not important, but I like discovering connectors between images that were taken decades apart.

There is always an autobiographical element in every choice, from choosing the scene to cropping, editing and processing. However, there is no autobiographical intention. I am interested in the lyrical aspects fo scenes and how they can interact together to make journeys.

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