TM : The creative forces of Nature, which are so apparent in the Cumbrian landscape (in NW England) in which I grew up. The mountains acted as crucibles of creative power while the clouds to me reflected the infinite speed of the Creator’s thought.

TM : The landscape in Somerset is very different to the Lake District. It is a land of clouds. The watery mists of the Lake District are now the dominating elemental force of movement which determine the Spirit of the land, the "veils" of Avalon. These veils show an ethereal reality, a world of magic and legend, and the artist is vision-led.

TM : The softness of early morning and the beauty of evening are for me the most inspirational times to paint. Shadows are at their most interesting and the power of nature is reflected in the way in which the spectrum of light changes rapidly from one colour to another.

TM : I am often asked this. Completion times can vary between one day and three months. I usually have about ten paintings prepared to work on at any given time. I work intuitively and tend to change from one scene to another, almost as if the sun of illumination passes from one cloud to another. When the vision is dimmed I meditate until the artistic problem is solved in my mind’s eye.

TM : As an artist I am always working and using my eyes to see the 'spirit of things'. There are thousands of colour phrases for the soul to see in only one hour. What touches my heart the deepest is what compels me to paint. Colour excites me the most. It is a living universal language of emotions and feelings which knows no boundaries, only lives in the moment, shows its nature for an instant and then is gone in a moments glance to another place of existence. It is an energy which travels with the thoughts of the Creator across a world with no bounds.

TM : Yes, it is the colour which depicts the psychological mood in the work. When I started to paint, my palette was very simple and limited, using only cadmium orange, the joy of the sun and indigo which carries the power of the unseen forces of night. For me these two colours represented day and night, the two forces in nature which in turn determine the conscious and unconscious side of life.

TM : I have always liked to experiment with artist’s materials to produce different multi-media effects. Sometimes lakes of water have been left to dry for days amongst paper collage, string and thick-textured valleys of paint in my attempt to produce violent storms, lightning and hypnotic moonlight.

TM : Yes. With the paintbrush I try to express the intangible presence of Nature, what our physical eyes don’t see, but what we sometimes sense is there, hidden within the light of Nature.

TM : Through my landscape painting I hope the viewer is able to feel the inner light of Nature and the mystery of the Infinite, and is able to be elevated by the experience. To illustrate this further, I should like to quote here from Shelley’s poem Julian and Maddalo:

"….I love all waste
and solitary places; where we taste
the pleasure of believing what we see
is boundless, as we wish our souls to be."

TM : Yes, my work follows in the Romantic tradition of English landscape painting, especially Turner, who has always represented the greatest inspiration for me as a painter of light. I feel that the creation of light in a painting is the embodiment of soul in a painting.

TM : Yes, a painting's spirit is in the light which shines from within it, which makes it breathe and gives each painting a life of its own.