Submerged — River Great Ouse at Earith Submerged agricultural land is a recurring feature of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands at this time of year, but the scale and incongruity of scenes like this one never cease to arrest the eye. This image was made near the village of Earith and records the impact of controlled flooding from the River Great Ouse — a managed process by which excess water is directed onto low-lying fields to protect settlements and infrastructure downstream. The

In the Fenland landscape, the telegraph pole is the dominant vertical. There are no hills, no church spires visible from a distance, no trees tall enough to punctuate the horizon with any authority. The telegraph pole does all of this work alone — a slender, utilitarian object that becomes, in the context of the flat open landscape, something close to monumental. I have photographed and painted telegraph poles many times. They appear in the Fenland series repeatedly, not as s

Fenland Farm Buildings at Hale Fen — Landscape Photography The farm buildings of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands occupy a particular place in the visual character of this landscape. Isolated, functional, and often in various states of repair, they punctuate the flat terrain with a directness that is entirely in keeping with the utilitarian spirit of the Fens. At Hale Fen, this quality is especially pronounced: the buildings sit low against the sky, their forms simplified by dista

'Landford, New Forest' — Cold Wax and Oil on Canvas This painting was made during my residency in the New Forest — a period of sustained engagement with a landscape quite different from the Fenlands of Cambridgeshire that have been my primary subject in recent years. The New Forest is dense, varied, and ancient; its light is filtered through canopy rather than arriving unimpeded across flat fields. Working there required a different kind of attention. The New Forest Residency

Eriswell This is a mixed-media landscape painting on a 103cm x 76cm deep edge canvas. It is semi abstract and expressionistic in terms of...

'Till' — Mixed Media on Canvas The word 'till' carries multiple meanings that are relevant to this painting: the tilling of soil, the preparation of ground for planting; the geological term for the unsorted sediment deposited by glaciers; and the more colloquial sense of a drawer or container. All of these meanings resonate with the painting's subject — the worked, layered surface of the Fenland landscape, and the way that surface holds the evidence of its own history. Mixed

‘Land Fall’ is an idea, not a location. In Winter, when the ground is hard underfoot, the activity of man scores pathways and coordinates...