I have always been interested in the diversity of landscape, particularly the effect of agriculture on the land - tractors ‘drawing’ across fields to produce perspective patterns and the effect of sunlight across a stubble field producing subtle variations in tone and colour, or seascapes with wet, shiny undulating beaches or multicoloured shingle.

All of these have a particular affinity with the craft of batik, in the way molten wax can be painted or drawn across a dyed area which can also be deliberately cracked to allow dye to seep in and produce a ‘cobweb’ of different coloured ‘hair’ - lines to produce textural effects. My batik wallhangings often refer to gouache and pastel paintings done from observation.