Landscape artist and writer
I like to work intensely on a specific subject. Spending years moving around a place, whether it’s one field or a 50 mile long footpath. Looking and drawing, looking and drawing over and over again. Saturating myself in the local colours, the repeating shapes, the flora and fauna, the weather, the moon, sounds and smells of a particular landscape.
Shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the East Anglian Book Awards
Through pictures and diary entries I find my subject matter encompasses much more than I first imagined. Initially, finding ways to draw in the dark and understanding how we see is as pressing as getting to grips with the complicated motion of the moon. Slowly I understand that the moon isn’t a subject on its own, that it’s part of everything around me - the stream, the toads, owls, teal, mosquitoes, horse chestnut blossom, and even the shooting of foxes. I feel the spinning of the Earth as it travels round the sun while I keep watch on the the moon as it circles Earth.
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Latest Project - Sugar Beet Moon
An Artist’s Study of the Sky
Diary of a moon gazer. Record of a night draw-er. Observations from planet Earth.
With texts by Andrew Lambirth and Dr Dan Self
About Tor
I see myself as an explorer. Obviously not in the heroic, man-against-the-odds sort of way, but in everyday looking, really looking, at what’s around you sort of way.
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Many thanks to Charlotte Sinclair for her words and Kent Andresen for his photographs of my moon drawing project (including my star gazing bed!), for the Weekend Financial Times, Sept 15th.
