"My work is landscape based, about the experience of actually being in a place. I spend a great deal of time working on location often returning to the same piece of landscape again and again over a long period of a time. Watching changes that the weather and the season have on a familiar landscape is important to me.

When I begin working in a chosen landscape, I spend time looking, trying to understand the essence of the place. I make drawings in a sketchbook as I walk through the landscape; working very quickly. For me the important thing is to strive to express the elusiveness of the light on the land or water.

Back in the studio I spread out the drawings and watercolours and away from the motif, ideas begin to emerge. For the last few years I have been making monoprints. I enjoy the directness of the medium, the way one can work quickly and respond to unexpected happenings. I use large sheets of paper which allows me to make free marks either using the end of a brush or my fingers. I often work in this way on a related series of prints adding additional marks with pastel.

The exhibition will include recent and new work on paper made on the shoreline in Kintyre and in the landscape of Northern England."

Donald Wilkinson