I am a British artist who paints while walking long distances, often across mountains, borders, or under geopolitical, climatic, historical or religious pressure. Each walk usually has an art historical or literary impetus, and the paintings I make along the way are shaped by the conditions they are made in: weather, altitude, solitude or fatigue.

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In 2022, I walked from Milan to Munich, loosely following the route the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel took over the Alps in 1554. That journey became the exhibition Walking After Bruegel. More recently, I made a winter walk through the mountains of Wales, and travelled on skis through the Austrian Alps. Earlier painting trips have taken me to the Caucasus Mountains of Dagestan, and the pilgrimage town of Tirupati in Southern India, often working alongside local artists, journalists or pilgrims.

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The work itself is necessarily spontaneous and portable. I paint in mountain huts, hotels, forests, and on hillsides. The paper or silk supports crease and wear as they travel in my rucksack, and when they are framed behind glass afterwards, they become fragile artifacts to the landscapes they travelled.