I am trained as a painter and this influences my approach to Photography. I paint with my lense, using an interplay of the elements around me, ie light, speed, natural and simulated weather effects. This in turn feeds back into my painting. None of my work is digitally manipulated.

My work is inspired by a contemporary play with Romanticism and I like to challenge preconceived notions associated with these theories. This results in a constant interplay between the contemporary and traditional. Along with contemporary artists, I draw my inspiration from JMW Turner and Romantic philosophy.

The Romantics used atmosphere to evoke an emotional response from the viewer; suggesting altered states or removal from everyday experience which was often associated with spiritual transcendence. In the Romantic tradition my images still offer a sense of the beyond and appreciation of the restorative and uplifting powers of nature but they are also deceptive in their superficiality. This is indicative of our more alienated postmodern condition in connection with our detached relationship to nature.'

'...it is what we squint at sideways in viewing something, rather than have directly in our sights. And it could never be grasped as a whole, trailing as it does out of the corners of our vision suggesting an infinity of possible connections beyond any actual horizon.' Martin Heidegger, The Politics of Being, The Ideology of the Aesthetic.