Now you may be thinking that I've made pictures like this before and you'd be right! This simple composition that suggests a ploughed field has been in my range for a while now. It's also the most popular image with you, my lovely audience. So, in creating more to meet demand, I took the opportunity to really hone the colour palette and the way the colours and patterns interact. It'...

The artist year has it's natural rhythms with November and December being very busy with art fairs and orders. January and February are quieter so it's a great time to focus on ambitious new work.

I've been working on these new monotype landscapes for the last month or so. They're on the largest sheet of paper that my printing press can manage (76 x 58 cm). There's something about working at large...

I'm often asked where I get my inspiration from. Some artists travel all over the world looking for the unusual and exotic but I find most of my inspiration on my doorstep - my own garden, neighbourhood and the fantastic Northumberland landscape. Wherever I go, I'm looking for colour, shape, pattern, contrast and outline. It doesn't have to be landscape to inform my landscape art - a striking colo...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a series of lone trees with big skies which is one of my favourite themes. The skies have a particular fascination for me as I observe real sunrises and sunsets in Northumberland. There’s a myriad of colour combinations, constantly changing – even if I just did skies, I don’t think I’d ever exhaust the creative possibilities!