I can’t know the scene in front of me. I can guess but never know. And that never knowing means that probably is only ever the best I can do. Doubt, means that painting landscape is an approximate record of doubt and feeling.

We appear vast inside ourselves compared to the physical reality of the world outside us. When we look at something outside of us it is always framed by the limit of the point of view – there is always something unseen. But no matter how gigantic the view we are looking at, the night sky, the mountain, the sea, it is held within our physical viewing frame, our eyes with our consciousness and memory. We overwhelm any view with the depth of our personal interior