'Citadel' — Acrylic on Canvas, Cambridge Series 'Citadel' is part of the Cambridge Envisaged series — a body of work that responds to the architecture, history, and atmosphere of Cambridge. The title refers to the sense of enclosure and authority that the city's older buildings project: the colleges, the chapels, the libraries, all of which present a face to the world that is simultaneously welcoming and forbidding. The Cambridge Series The Cambridge Envisaged series was deve

This acrylic painting measures 80 x 80 cm and is created on canvas. It is inspired by the landscape of the Great Fen, which is believed to have once been covered by Whittlesea Mere. I have been experimenting with various acrylic mediums and application techniques to create illusions of depth with just a hint of topographical details. The apparent speed of execution is misleading; there are likely three or four paintings beneath the decayed vegetation and peat bogs of earlier

Impromptu Christo Reincarnated in the last decade as the social heart of Doha, Souq Waqif is a wonderful place to explore and an...

'Shallowlands' — Mixed Media Landscape on Canvas The title of this painting refers to the shallow, waterlogged terrain of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands — a landscape that is neither fully land nor fully water, but something in between. The Fens are, in a geological sense, reclaimed land: territory that was once sea or marsh, drained and made productive over centuries of human effort. 'Shallowlands' is an attempt to hold something of this ambiguity in paint. Mixed Media and Surf

Bir Zekreet, Qatar — Limestone Escarpment There is not much in the way of altitude in Qatar, which only serves to exaggerate the small escarpment on the northwestern coast of the peninsula, near Dukhan. The limestone formations at Bir Zekreet offer something close to a geology lesson in desert erosion: wind has gradually worn away the softer sedimentary rock, exposing pillars and a large mushroom-shaped outcrop of harder limestone. The landscape has a quality that is both aus

'Garden Bench' — Photography and Memory This photograph was made in the garden of a house I know well — a place associated with particular memories and a particular quality of afternoon light. The bench is empty, as it often is, and the emptiness is part of the subject: the suggestion of presence, of someone who has recently been there or who might return. Photography and the Domestic Landscape I have always been interested in the domestic landscape as a subject — the garden,