I am a full-time artist working predominantly in acrylics, I am self-taught by choice, hoping that what I create is somehow an authentic expression of my own journey. I originally focussed upon drawing, in various mediums, before arriving at paint all of a sudden around 2007, oils at first and now mostly acrylics, and it felt like the next step I had needed for a while, even though my approach owes far more to what came before than any effort to learn how it is supposed to be done. Shortly after the arrival of paint I moved to the Cariboo and the landscapes around these parts, which are now central to my work.

For this show with Jess and Anita, some pieces draw from the title of the show in a geographical way, as with my painting “Here” which depicts the lake where I live and “There”, a scene from a hike back in England that has special significance to me and my father. I had planned to use this opportunity to launch into a bunch of different “theres” too, some old haunts far away, some more experimental forays outside the box, but somehow being sensible won out and the majority of pieces I created are further explorations of ”here”, which is a combination of familiar places and others new to me (there are still so many more bends to round out here). And there’s always something new to discover in the familiar too, one reason why I am drawn to depicting water, which you could say there has something of both here and there to it.