Cuckoo Farm Studios

My work is based on the stretch of East Anglian coast where I live and have my studio. This coast is where the gardened landscape of East Anglia starts to fall, literally, into the spare and elemental spaces of the North Sea; where any idea of landscape as static and timeless is replaced by a sense of dynamic flux.

The Essex coast is one of the archetypal landscapes of East Anglia with creeks, estuaries, saltings and seawalls. I use it as an archive of shapes and colour, of weather and of objects. However, the big subject is the collapse of the contained and cultivated into the big uncontained spaces of the East coast; trying to find dynamism and passion in the paint that will match those in the landscape whilst retaining a structural clarity that allows observed fact to become something pictured and true.