Nature is the lifelong inspiration behind my work. Using a mixture of various materials, I enjoy mark-making to create textures through layers of colour, often finding the image through an explorative way of working. The textures and colours best describe my experience of nature.
I am not sure how it started, as I was from the city; I grew up in east London but I was always drawn to the natural world, looking at anything available, from leaves to the sky. Perhaps it was due to family background in Spain, where a deeper connection and fascination with nature were formed in the rocky foothills of the Pyrenees in Huesca province. This love of nature filtered into my drawings. Eventually I went on to study fine art at West Surrey College of Art and Design, graduating with a BA Honours degree in 1993. Later I studied photography at City of Westminster College.
Now living in north Wales, I have greater opportunity to source my ideas in this varied landscape through photography and drawing. Added to nature is my interest in human nature - the unique way we perceive the natural world and how it seems to reflect metaphors about our lives. Wherever we may live, there is always something in nature however small which provides opportunity for reflection and solace, through which we can also find healing. As my paintings are centred on this idea, I hope in turn they can do the same.
Throughout my life many different artists have accompanied me. Among them to name just a few are Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Rothko, brothers Paul Nash and John Nash, Hiroshige, Emily Carr...
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I'm delighted to have nature photographs currently distributed in hospitals internationally by this wonderful foundation: