One's experience of landscape is at various levels, from the moving picture show of the car journey to the enclosed horizon seen by a figure resting on the ground, from the gentle caress of spring sunshine to a heavy battering of rain.

At times also, we absorb the broader colours of the land and sky while touching and feeling the material which make up the landscape. Being 'at home' in the land, we probably take for granted a lot of what composes 'nature'. Our eyes and senses are drawn to the unusual, remarkable or striking aspect of what we experience, while our unconscious is registering all the rest, shifting focus to what is moving or dynamic. A quick inventory is taken of all the more subtle things; by it's nature, the conscious mind categorises the 'normal' and shifts focus to avoid being overloaded with sensory information.

In creating pictures, we can choose to try and record or recreate landscape on many levels. The static nature of visual art presents a challenge when we are trying to record a moving shifting focus and interaction of the senses and materials. The evocation of a landscape can therefore take many forms. The challenge is to create movement with static materials within the tabular arrangement of an essentially flat surface.