From my perspective, the power of the North is very strong and has many faces. The cold, the long frozen winter months and the distances have kept people away and this is good. There is nothing to equal the exhilaration of the space up here and the limitless landscape still untouched by man. The land is our connection to our shared human history and must be kept safe. No gesture is too small. I hope that my paintings will contribute to the growing awareness of disaster and be a witness and a voice for this treasured but vulnerable environment.

This untouched and unusual part of the Arctic landscape along the shores of Hudson Bay has absorbed me for over 25 years. It is part of the Polar world seen in another light. It is my home and I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be able to experience this inaccessible part of our beautiful planet first hand, as part of my life, and to explore some of its essence through my watercolours and oils. It is an artistic relationship in which the subject is the determining energy...I could never impose a ‘concept’ or ‘idea’ on so abstract and extraordinary a collection of shapes, colours, weather and space as is this multi-detailed land around the Hudson Bay. It shows me the way.