I work in a variety of media, oil on canvas, pencil on paper, model making in wood, metal and plastic. I have used the human figure to tell stories. The relationships between the figures in the paintings carry a narrative that concerns moral, emotional, erotic aspects of human life. I am interested in depicting tenderness, kindness, passionate and loving interactions between the people depicted. I work from memory although I have spent many years studying the human form both as a student and a life drawing teacher. My landscape work also derives from memory and close observation. I was inspired by Van Gogh as a young man and then by the work of Giorgio de Chirico. De Chirico saw an underlying reality behind the mundane, everyday appearances of the world. I too recognised this from an early age and it has informed my work ever since. I have always been interested in architecture and the relationships between the man-made artefacts around us and the natural world. These scenes create a back-drop to the human dramas that unfold in and around them. I find that some places have an eerie ,haunted quality that arises from the people and events that have taken place there. The Malvern Hills are the home to many ghosts, the souls that remain from the historical events that occurred here. I try to capture the strangeness of those landscapes.