I spent the largest part of my life in South Africa where I regularly experienced vast wilderness areas – like the Karoo and Southern Drakensberg (mountain range). I returned to the land of my birth in December 2012 and now live in a large village on the outskirts of Norwich, UK.

In attempting to formulate an artist’s statement, I began by listing what compels me to make a picture:

• It can start as an image I see in my subconscious – generally a landscape or a place set in wilderness. I am rarely drawn to produce figurative art.

• The medium almost always chooses me, and I find myself guided by it and what it wants me to do.

• Composition rarely starts at the beginning for me; it’s a growing, amorphous organic process that leads me to refine the shapes and colours into a balance where I am happy.

• I am fascinated with organic shapes – trees, woodland rivers and lakes, mountains and ancient ruins – you will find these elements in nearly all of my work.