I was raised in Cornwall, and grew up in the English countryside. My earliest sketches were studies of my surroundings, locations which I felt moved to record. I have been influenced by the tradition of British landscape painting, particularly in my early works. My paintings express a response to my perception of nature, to the transient acts of weather and the tenuous beauty of spontaneous cloud formations, captured in a fleeting moment. Traveling has been a source of inspiration for my work, taking me throughout the British Isles and Europe, and later through North Africa and East Africa. There is a body of my work that celebrates these experiences. Sometimes I work from numerous studies, not always from the same location, but all with a view to a larger work. I love the skies, the source of light and the constantly changing barometric configurations. The expansive, magical thunderstorms over the savannah, the atmospheric conditions and their effect on the terrain; and more recently, the alluvial landscapes of the Hudson
River Valley and the Long Island Sound. The English landscape painter John Constable said, “It would be hard to describe a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale and chief organ of sentiment”. During my years residing in the United States, I have continued to travel and paint throughout rural New England and the Southwest; I am now based in New York.

GALLERIES & SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2005 Miranda Fine Arts ,” Undercover”, Portchester, NY 1998 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC 1997 Markel Sears Works on Paper, NYC 1995 The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson,"The Nature of Landscape", Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 1994 The Hurlbutt Gallery,”Bronze,Graphite,Gold”, Greenwich, CT 1993 The Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua, NY, Group Show 1980 Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, "The Architecture of Lower Manhattan", NYC 1979 The Photographers Gallery, London 1979 Es Portal Gallery, Mahon, Menorca, Spain

COMMISSIONS AND CORPORATE ART COLLECTIONS The State Department, Washington, D.C The Bellehaven Club, Greenwich, CT Bank of America, NYC Henri Bendel, NYC The Wee Burn Club, Darien, CT Saks Fifth Avenue, NYC The Roundhill Club, Greenwich, CT Fisher Associates, NYC Tiffany and Co, NYC Heather Hill Inc., Chardon, OH The American Woolen Building, NYC Robert AM Stern, Architect, NYC Bloomingdales, NYC The Hyannisport Club, Hyannisport, MA The Harborside Corporation, Jersey City, NJ Hotel Sahara Beach, Monastir, Tunisia Nina Campbell Inc, London Canastels, NYC Il Giardineto, NYC Angelos, NYC Areo, NYC

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Chris Madden – At Home - “ Imaginative Landscapes”, 2006 New York Times – “The Nature of Landscape” by Vivien Raynor, November 1995 Greenwich Magazine - Review of exhibit at Hurlbutt Gallery, May 1994 Greenwich Time - Review of Hurlbutt Gallery Exhibition 'Bronze, Graphite, Gold', May 1994 House and Garden - "Cottage Classic", Martin Filler, May 1989 Metropolis - "The Unreal Thing: Pictureseque Deceptions", Akiko Busch, September 1985 Interiors - "Something about a Wall", Wendy Staebler, September 1985 The Designer - "A Return to Elegance", January 1985 The New York Times - "After the White Wall", Joseph Giovanini, June 1985 The New York Times - "Trompe l'Oeil from Nature", Suzanne Slesin, July 1981

BOOKS Trompe l'Oeil at Home - Karen Chambers, Rizzoli, 1991 Nursery Design - Barbara Aria, Bantam, New York, 1990 Floorworks - Akiro Busch, Bantam, New York, 1988 Wallworks - Akiro Busch, Bantam, New York, 1988 Bathroom Design - Barry Dean, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987