It was the end of January 2021, when we made our return to Norfolk. We sold our house in Port Isaac after almost four years of living in the sunny South West. So – Norfolk again! A diverse land of fields and marshland, dunes, creeks and cliffs. Those fields, lined with oak trees that silhouette against vast skies that change by the minute. Brick and flint cottages nestling beside copses and peaceful rivers that meander past cow meadows and reeds. Norfolk in all it’s moods has inspired me all my life. It’s a good job I’m back as I was definitely losing my Norfolk accent – the unlikely affect of having Cornish pasties for breakfast!

As always, I endeavour to keep the great traditions of landscape painting and country life alive – keeping a foot in the past but looking forward – to do both of them justice is always an enjoyable challenge. My aim for every exhibition is for it to be better than the last and the desire to improve and evolve as an artist, spurs me on every day.

I have loved revisiting old haunts, exploring different places and finding new painting grounds – being chased off a field by a grumpy landowner is a small price to pay for a good subject! The more I’ve searched, the more I’ve found. Norfolk is such a big county, there is still so much to paint and that’s a wonderful thing.