Elements begins with weather — wind, water, the forces that act on a landscape rather than its visible appearance. Worked in acrylic and charcoal on a cradled panel, the composition builds through layered marks that record atmosphere rather than topography.

What the work captures is not a place but the conditions that shaped it.

Acrylic, charcoal on cradled panel / 50 × 60 cm / 2024

A cave on the Cornwall coast, drawn from memory in charcoal on A0 paper. That drawing — the skeleton of the place, its ancient structural logic — is still there beneath the paint, holding the composition even as four layers of acrylic work to cover it.

Ochre forms the ground. Over it, three colours — paynes grey, burnt sienna, turquoise — are applied in restrained, deliberate fields, obscuring the charcoal beneath without fully replacing it. The cave remains. You cannot see it, but it is holding everything up.

The Cornwall coast leaves visible records — storms, tidal movements, the slow work of water on rock. Coastal Strata reads landscape the way a geologist reads cliff face: not as scenery but as accumulated evidence.

Acrylic and charcoal build a surface that is layered rather than painted — each mark a deposit, each line a record of force applied over time.