I am immensely lucky to have been awarded the first ever artist’s Residency offered by the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in conjunction with the Royal Navy. Receiving this award, after a selection process, allowed me to spend five weeks as artist in residence on board HMS Scott in Antarctica on her inaugural voyage there in early 2010. It proved to be a most incredible, challenging experience and one which I will value enormously forever.

A collection of excerpts from the blog I kept at the time can be found here.

Later the same year, I found myself returning to the south Atlantic, this time as artist in residence with Oceanwide Expeditions. On this voyage, besides the Antarctic peninsula and sub Antarctic Islands, we also took in spectacular South Georgia. This is the most stunning place I have ever been; both terrifying and beautiful at the same time, it is a truly sublime environment and a crucially important habitat which is teeming with wildlife.

See images here