For some time my work has explored the shifting atmosphere between wild spaces, coastal horizons and cultivated land, but recently I have found myself drawn more deeply into flowers and cultivated spaces — not simply as subjects, but as emotional places. There is something compelling in the tension between control and looseness: the ordered structure of cultivated environments against the fleeting movement of light, weather and season.
Painted in my characteristically loose and painterly style, these works are less concerned with botanical precision and more focused on capturing the essence and feeling of a place. I am interested in those fleeting moments when colour, light and movement briefly align — petals catching sudden sunlight, shadows dissolving across pathways, or dense flowers becoming almost abstract in changing weather.
Working between plein air studies and larger studio paintings, I want the painted surface to remain alive, instinctive and responsive. Brushmarks are allowed to stay visible, echoing the energy and impermanence found within nature itself.
Flowers and cultivated spaces fascinate me because they exist between the human and the wild: carefully shaped and tended, yet never fully controlled. These new paintings continue my wider exploration of atmosphere, mood and light, while moving further into themes of transience, memory and the emotional resonance of cultivated spaces.