My work is inspired by the view from my suburban home which overlooks a fragment of countryside gradually being subsumed by suburban sprawl. The view fascinates me, with its dissonant combination of banal 1970s suburban housing, majestic trees and distant landscape. My paintings are derived from photographs taken through a net curtained window, thus enhancing the sense of melancholy, distance and poignancy of the diminishing landscape as viewed from the domestic interior. The painting process of layering transparent oil glazes or very fluid watercolours is also analogous with the veiling of the landscape. I am influenced by the work of contemporary photo-based painters such as Gerhard Richter and Peter Doig and also by the Northern European tradition of Romantic landscape painting.