I was born in Sheffield in 1956 and have been a full-time artist since 1985. I have travelled and painted extensively in England, particularly the southern counties and East Anglia, as well as parts of Italy and the United States. I have always been fascinated by the interplay and overlapping of the objective, outer world and the subjective, inner world, the world of dream, memory and imagination, and see myself as basically a subjective type of artist, one who responds to particular aspects of the visual landscape chiefly because of the way they resonate and connect with this inner world. All my landscapes, whatever the subject or location, the chalk cliffs of the Dorset coast, close-up views of plant life, the flat expanses and enormous skies of Norfolk and Suffolk, or the places further from home I have visited over the years, are really about finding inner states, moods, emotions, feelings, particularly wonder, mystery, strangeness, grandeur, tranquillity, reflected in aspects of the visual world such as space, light and distance. I think that the basic aim of my paintings is to use effects of light and space to create a mood or atmosphere in which a magical, mysterious quality of nature can perhaps be glimpsed. I see myself as continuing in the tradition of British romantic landscape painting, especially that of Samuel Palmer and his associates, who attempted, by giving their landscapes a visionary intensity, to go beyond the ordinary everyday appearance of things, and, in the words of Palmer himself, "to try to bring up a mystic glimmer behind the hills, like that which lights our dreams". My aim, and hopefully the effect I sometimes manage to achieve, is to create a sort of new reality, in which the landscape takes on an almost dreamlike character - an effect familiar and yet strange, tranquil, and at the same time slightly disturbing. Since 1985 I have been represented by the Francis Kyle Gallery of London, which has a large collection of my paintings.