AERIAL

Who doesn’t like looking out of aeroplane windows? I’m perhaps a little more obsessive than most, I can stare entranced from them. I often book flights at sunset time, or choose my seat so I can stare out at a piece of coastline or range of mountains.

Talking of mountains, I also love the views from on top of them. I’ve climbed Kilimanjaro and Toubkal (the highest in the Atlas range in Morocco) and wondered all over the Alps and Himalayas, to be able to sit on top and gaze down.

I’ve had a thing for maps all my life, and man of these works echo the format of the old 1:50 000 topographical maps I studied at school. The lines made by the paint as it dries remind me of the lines of gradient, and small random paintmarks of symbols carefully placed in a landscape. 

These works will be shown as part of the March 2012 exhibition (details on the home page).