My practice combines personal experience with compositional and sustainable devices, such as sewing remnant materials, to create non-traditional landscape paintings. Recent works have evolved from sketches of Ben MacDui in the Cairngorms, following a walk from Nan Shepherd’s book The Living Mountain, 1977. I’ve been re-examining my interest in this walk, the first hike I managed after a car accident, and exploring honesty and care through drawing, writing, painting and installation. Through the sensory experience of walking, translated into the physicality of large-scale painting I process ideas of place, memory, identity and ecology.