This is my Statement of Intent submitted with my RPS Visual Arts Fellowship panel:

'First contact with the unworldly, wind-sculpted dunes of the Namib Desert assaults the senses, visually and emotionally.
To tease out the ethereal as well as the earthly qualities of this mysterious place, I chose a semi-abstract approach. It remains part-literal, however, to preserve the integrity of the whole - the thematic characteristics of grandeur with grace, solidity with fluidity, permanence with fragility.
Near the ocean, sea mists play on a pale palette, toying continually with tone, colour and mood. Inland, light and shadow contrasts become extreme with razor-sharp delineations, the colours hot and vivid.
To preserve context, there is detail: rippling corrugations; dustings of iron oxide particles; trees, living and semi-fossilised; life, as evidenced by animal and vehicle tracks; and, inevitably, people.
I have attempted to express in these images my personal interpretation - a perfection on the edge, a metaphor for our planet today.'