Over a number of years I have been making paintings that go under the broad title of The Wide Horizon . This varied series has been influenced by travels around Britain , Europe, the United States and Australia as well as by the conventions of painting. Often they are made on materials found in the landscape (timber, stone, metal, etc.), sometimes painted in makeshift 'field studios'.

The paintings are intensely coloured abstractions, composed in response to the form and character of the materials on which they are realised as much as by the look of a locality. Whilst, as the series title suggests, they can be read as landscape images, they are inventions rather than topographic descriptions - sensations of place rather than painted photographic documents.

The organising principle of the horizon is at once a formal, conventional device, establishing a relationship with the history of landscape paintings, and a reference to the real processes of perception and experience. The paintings emphasise this reading, displayed in groups, arranged horizontally; like episodes on a journey, they reconstruct fragments of the world's rim around us.