Traders at South Molton Pannier Market

Exchanging Glances

For me there is no such thing as ‘strangers’; just people that I haven’t yet met. Even before a word is spoken, I am drawn by the mystery of who they are, what stories they have to tell and the piquancy that I will probably never see them again.

Altered Images

There is no cast iron law that a photograph has to be realistic. The first image is a painting which I made from a photo of the Taj Mahal. As a painting, nobody would question its abstract style, so there is no reason why the camera and the computer cannot also be used to abstract from reality.

Local Character

The essence and character of local communities can be found in local people.

Urban Life

“There are those ‘of’ cities who are not in them and others ‘in’ cities who are not of them.” Professor Ray Pahl

West Country Scenes

“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof” Thomas Fuller 1608-1661.

British Vistas

“… the tides visiting and revisiting the friths, the main sea dashing against the bolder shore, the rivers pursuing their course to be lost in the mighty mass of waters. … the winds sweeping over the lakes, or piping with a loud voice among the mountain peaks; and, lastly, … the primaeval woods shedding and renewing their leaves with no human eye to notice, or human heart to regret or welcome the change.” Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes, 1906.

My Exmoor

“Some countryfolk are at home in a domesticated landscape; others must have their diet braced by ingredients closer to the untamed aspects of mankind. There lie the Moor’s threefold claims on my inherited allegiance: the wilderness, the sea, the softness.”

J.H.B. Peel – Portrait of Exmoor

European Perspectives

Europe: a continent of immense variety and sophistication in its landscape, people, language, art, culture, religion and cuisine; integrated by its land and history.