These landscape paintings come from fading memories. My biggest challenge is to convey these fleeting images and the feelings associated with them, into a finished piece. Capturing colour and contrast from the grey industrial northwest where I grew up. Recollecting bogs and fields, the patchworks of allotments and pastures, that all seem to have been drained of life, as if their time has already passed and they are steadily, slowly fading away. In some way I have been trying to capture that process, not only in the countryside, but also in the region's towns.