about my work

Landscape has always been my passion and my location in Piemonte gives me easy access to beautiful landscape - (on my doorstep) and to the magnificent mountains of northern Italy, and the sea,  However my subjects are not confined to Italy and I am still excited by the dramatic landscapes of  Scotland and Ireland where I return from time to time 

My aim is to paint the essence of the landscape. -  to translate how I feel when I am in the landscape and what it means to me, rather than reproduce a view of it. To achieve this my work is of necessity semi abstracted, although it is always related to a specific location. 

 I explore the use of symbolic marks to indicate the features of the landscape.. Colour has always been a key feature of my work and I seek  to push the boundaries of form and space.

In recent years I have developed what I call my "Flowerscapes" I have always loved flowers., but as with my landscapes I want to convey the energy and colour of both wild and cultivated flowers, rather than their botanical form. Many of these paintings appear to be completely abstract, but they always come from something tangible. - a specific flower or maybe the profusion of wild flowers in a mountain meadow. (imagine Wordsworth’s host of golden daffodils) For me the word flowerscape exemplifies the color  and aesthetic appeal of flowers. After developing this approach to my floral work  I see that it relates to  the expressive floral paintings of the late Monet works and those of Joan Mitchell.