“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.” 

Anne Michaels (Fugitive Pieces, 1996)

Places and spaces are ever present in my work, the emotional associations they hold and the resonance they have. Landscapes, and in particular trees, for me hold a strong attachment to a place. They can be a constant when the surrounding land starts to change. Paths become roads over time and open fields become prime building land, but hopefully a trace of the original tree line or the grand oaks are left.