I live in the hills behind the Costa Blanca, surrounded by olive and almond trees and a gang of sparrows that is never quiet for long. Every morning and evening the starlings come by to sing.

My paintings often grow out of observations of my surroundings: a blue tit pausing for just a moment, an evening sky almost too pink to be real, or a hungry hummingbird hawk-moth in the flowering hedge.

Every piece is painted by hand in my studio.