"My creative process is simple. I go hiking and take hundreds of photos of things that I find beautiful, and then I translate it into my version on canvas. I never copy a photo (unless asked to for a commission), I allow the painting to grow outwards from a light point. Colour and depth are my main technical objectives. Beauty and calmness are my artistic objectives. I often run paintings in a series, each one different from the other but exploring the same theme. I can get completely obsessed with a certain colour, or light point. I grew up living in the middle of an English wood, where my brother and I spent most of our time making dens and treehouses. It is undoubtedly this experience that created my fascination with painting trees. I would stand for ages with both hands on a tree, trying to see if there really are tree spirits. I believe there are."