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The paintings show a glimpse into the world of brambles, stinging nettles and other commonly unnoticed habitats, and of some of the many intricate lives you would find there, though they are but echoes of the wonders to be seen if we look patiently into thorn thickets, long grasses and thistles and enjoy the forgotten places where wildness persists.
I use Egg Tempera which I make using pure pigments ground into a paste with water and then mixed with egg yolk at the time of painting. Egg yolk is an emulsion of oil and water so the paint is water soluble when wet but very durable. Very intense colours and fine detail are possible using this medium. I use high quality 18mm birch ply wood which I first coat with gesso, which forms a ground for the tempera. The technique of tempera, requiring many thin layers of colour, together with the detailed nature of my work, means that the paintings can each take three or four months to complete.
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