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My aim with this collection is to give you, the viewer, the experience of 'being there'.

My landscapes are often dramatic and mystical. They are of no place in particular, but simply of a magical place far away where the skies and the earth are the most powerful subjects of the painting - just how it is in real life; which we, as humans, sometimes forget.

I always try to capture this drama on glass for all to be as mesmerised by this wonderful world as I am. As I paint on glass the drying time of the oils play a big part in my paintings and therefore I can come back to one painting as many as five or six times. It is therefore hugely important for me to be able to instantly pick up my brush and feel the same emotion as the first day I started to paint a particular piece.

The only way I can do this is to use music as my inspiration. I have a great love of films and, in particular, film soundtracks which are often powerful and haunting and the perfect background to my paintings. I will listen to one particular track over and over again whilst painting one particular piece and I will only listen to that piece of music whilst working on that piece. This enables me to feel in the same emotive place at the end of the painting as when I was at the very beginning.

These five pieces have therefore been named after the soundtrack I listened to when creating the paintings. They give the viewer a real taste of what I was thinking and listening to at the moment I was painting that particular piece and I hope show a piece of work that is equally as powerful and dramatic as the music that inspired it.




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