The title of this body of work Westering is taken from Seamus Heaney’s poem. His depiction of the Irish landscape as a place that is imbued with memory, meaning and emotion; an all-consuming presence heightened by distance from it forms the basis to explore, in paint, our relationship to our homelands. Paintings respond to and reflect on the interventions man-made & climactic, changes wrought by animals and plants as well as rivers, sea and erosion. The work focuses on peripheral places as part of an on-going investigation into Edgelands.   Found materials find their way onto the painting ground and exhibition space as an archive of their source location;. This solicits a material connection with the original place whilst forming a material surface on some canvases which renders the subject evermore abstract and elusive.