Landscape artist. Oil and cold wax.

I work primarily in oil and cold wax. I am interested in landscape as feeling rather than record — the particular quality of light on a hill, the weight of dark water, the moment when a place stops being geography and becomes something more personal.

My paintings tend toward vibrant, juicy colour. Not bright in a decorative sense, but saturated and specific — Indian Yellow, Chromium Oxide Green, Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna. I use Titanium White sparingly, mostly to push luminosity in particular passages. The mark matters to me as much as the colour. I use palette knives, silicone blades, and rollers alongside brushes. I want the surface to feel made.

I have exhibited as a wildcard in Landscape Artist of the Year and shown work at Roundhay Gallery (Leeds), Tarpey Gallery (Castle Donnington), The Atelier (Brighton) and The Old Lock Up Gallery (Peak District).

I spent years trying to paint like artists I admired. I took workshops, copied techniques, followed advice. My paintings got more competent and less mine. The problem was not that I was doing the exercises wrong. The problem was that I was doing other people's exercises.

Paint from the Inside Out grew out of my own process of working backwards — from the paintings I actually wanted to make, to the self-knowledge that makes them possible. If you are disappointed with your painting, I suspect the gap is not a technique gap. This course is my attempt to help you close a different one.