"My pictures represent my experiences of looking at landscape. I photograph whatever catches my eye, both distant and nearby and accumulate this information over a period of time.

The negatives are selected and combined to form an image that evokes a memory of those experiences. Variations in the composition are achieved by adding or removing negatives as the picture grows. Sometimes over 200 negatives comprise the final composition.

I want to liberate my still photographs from the static viewpoint and the single moment. They do not record a fixed position in time or space. They are composed in the studio not in the camera. I hope they encourage prolonged contemplation that moving film does not provide and that these accumulated compositions present an extended sense of experience in a still image that a single-frame photograph does not achieve.

I came to photography with a background in painting and printmaking. I am used to looking at pictures hung on walls for display. Whether in museums, galleries or homes, compelling pictures have the power to arrest, whatever the medium of their making. They reveal their significance gradually and sustain continued attention. They can be lived with. They defy analysis. They can be talked about but never defined. This is the test I put to paintings, prints and photographs alike."