This idea of finding beauty in the unexpected, the overlooked, the everyday, the mundane and the forgotten, was the inspiration behind this collection of oils on canvas and moody charcoal drawings.

Whilst the artworks may seem totally diverse in their subject matter – a scorched hill in the Midlands; a snippet of a view seen through a moving train window; an abandoned train station in the middle of Italy; a wet, rainy road in downtown Durban – the idea that links them all is the concept of paying attention to the immediate environment we find ourselves in at any particular given moment in time. And to pause long enough to consider finding beauty where you perhaps thought there was none.