I use the landscape as a means to explore painting. Or using paint as a means to explore a landscape. I don’t want to be precious about what creeps in and out, letting what’s found within the process be integral to the outcome. From lines made, a place quickly reveals itself, a place ever-changing.

At times I feel like I’m playing the role of a storyteller but the painting actually dictates which way the story goes, and I like that, as I want to be surprised by what reveals itself - I want the painting to look back at me and feel unfamiliar and unexpected, but also familiar and intimate.

Lines are joyful and songlike, confident and present. Finding ways through pattern and colour to give language to the landscape around me. A landscape that at times feels close, but can also feel quiet and hidden. Celebrating the joy of sitting, looking, listening. When everything about a moment feels fleeting, the topography of a place is the only concrete thing that will always be there, along with its hidden stories.

B, 1991, Welsh Artist, Living and working in south Wales Education

BA Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon college of Art, London Foundation in art and design, Swansea college of art