Inspired by Pembrokeshire

I love to create “joyful and magical” paintings inspired by a Pembrokeshire landscape full of wild flowers, birds and animals. And I paint entirely from my imagination, creating very personal interpretations of Pembrokeshire - some places are real, others are imagined.

Walking in this marvellously varied county has always been my passion. I must have walked hundreds of miles in all weathers through all seasons - along the rugged coast path above cliff-bound coves, across wide wind-swept beaches, in secret green valleys and on bare blue-stone hills - and I now feel I have a deep affinity with this unique landscape.

Wandering through this landscape has made me very aware of the passing seasons - the colours of the land and the sea and the sky are constantly changing with the weather and as the year turns.As I walk I see all of the things that inspire my paintings: low white-washed cottages and grey-stone farmhouses, small lichen-walled fields of early potatoes, black-faced sheep dotted across purple hillsides, storm-bent hawthorn bushes - and always the ever-changing sea and sky.

For me, this wonderfully unique landscape is full of small but essential detail. Pembrokeshire’s wild flowers are an especially important part of this – blackthorn blossom and bluebells in the spring, red campion, ox-eye daisies and foxgloves in the summer, purple heather and russet bracken in the autumn. And in every season, even on the darkest of winter days, the blazing yellow-gold glow of gorse flowers in hedgerows and on cliff-tops.