I live and work in rural France in the Touraine region just south of Tours. I have been exhibiting and making site-specific installations and constructs in galleries and outside in the public context since moving there from the UK in 2002.

Although I mostly painted and many of these were shaped or extended into the gallery space the unfamiliar French countryside and a change of culture and language helped me find other new visual possibilities. I found myself collecting, making constructs as well as painting but most of all I began to use photography. The very first set of constructs I produced in 2002 were made of wax (which I had used before as a way of covering the surface of my paintings) took form as work in themselves. This very fragile and translucent substance could only be photographed which became, not only way to record them, but actually completed them as visual images. Light Works, based on stained-glass windows became the very first serious set of photographic art works and Light Catcher has developed from this original idea. As a book it reflects the magic of the camera lens which is able to capture fleeting moments and subtle changes of light and movement.

I began to exhibit site-specific installations for the first time and being interested in artists like Andy Goldsworthy and surrounded by an ordinary but stunning landscape I found myself working directly in this environment (as it was natural to draw the people who surrounded me every day whilst living in Paris). I had often painted on objects like boxes or draws and textural surfaces but this time they became more important and began to feature in their own right, like the bicycle from Awakenings. Red muslin cloth, which had been only part of a painting before, began to travel over the landscape and Slow News a commission and installation of large circular photographs climbed 5 m up a gallery wall.

In 2007 I also began to develop larger constructs such as World Disco and I exhibited an installation called Feast which is again a work in progress and the largest constructed work to date. This has been featured in three exhibitions from 2009 through to Autumn 2010. Anemones was exhibited outside in autumn 2011 and is also a constructed sculptural work in progress.