After three decades as a water photographer, working from kayaks and diving beneath the surface, I transitioned to abstract painting in 2022. My work continues to explore water, but through a fundamentally different lens: not capturing what water looks like, but expressing what it feels like to encounter it.

My abstract paintings interpret the movement, energy, and fluidity of water as a lived experience. They emerge from years of direct physical engagement with aquatic environments, feeling water's force, unpredictability, and dynamic colour shifts. This is not passive observation translated to canvas, but kinetic memory made visible.

While some works emerge from direct immersion (kayaking, diving), others capture water's interaction with the landscape: streams flowing through British woodlands, fallen leaves transforming in pools, seasonal shifts reflected in still water. In both, I'm responding to water as an active, transformative presence.

Energy and Motion: Swirling forms, gestural brushwork, and directional flow create constant movement. These marks echo water's restless nature: currents, eddies, turbulence.

Bold, Saturated Colour: My palette is vibrant and intense. Blues, yes, but also oranges, purples, yellows, reds. These colours are experiential rather than descriptive. Water is never just blue. It holds reflections, refractions, depth, light filtering through sediment and algae, sky mirrored and transformed.

Layering and Texture: Built-up surfaces incorporate sand and other materials found at the water's edge. Overlapping colours and varied mark-making suggest depth, what lies below the surface, the complexity of aquatic environments.

Reflective Surfaces: I work with gold leaf, silver leaf, copper leaf, diamond dust, and subtle metallic elements, paired with varnishes ranging from high gloss to matte. These materials capture water's essential quality: its ability to reflect, refract, and shift with changing light. The surface of each painting becomes as dynamic as water itself, transforming as the viewer moves.

Organic Forms: Flowing, irregular shapes dominate, resisting rigid structure just as water resists containment.

My work embraces water as experience. These paintings capture the visceral sensation of encountering water: the force pressing against your body, the unpredictable shifts in current and light, leaves drifting and decaying, reflections fragmenting across the surface. Water transforms everything it touches.

I'm based in London, UK, but follow the water wherever it leads.