Throughout 2022 I worked on an ambitious project travelling the length and breadth of the United Kingdom to draw a selection of ancient trees chosen by The Queen’s Green Canopy to mark the occasion of Her Late Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
My entire career has centred around the British landscape, its diversity and richness as well as its fragile but vital importance. I have studied and drawn trees all my life. This collection of paintings represents a hugely ambitious and unique body of work and functions both as a powerful artistic statement and as a record of some of the most precious and extraordinary trees in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Every painting was created in situ and in my studio and represents my intensely personal response to each individual tree.
The works were exhibited at Sotheby's London in December 2022.