Working from my studio in Tyn-y-Gongl, Anglesey, I have the ingredients of life on my doorstep – sky, land and sea. The light and lines that these produce are my love and motivation, especially the light. Changing weather, the absolute stillness or the inevitable wind are a challenge to try to capture on paper or on canvas.

Acrylic paint is my favourite medium - I can use very little on a brush like water colour or apply it thickly like oil with a palette knife. It dries quickly forcing me to work at a faster pace but at the same time giving me flexibility to work the paint, to make changes or even to wash it off and start again. Preferring to use a variety of DIY tools rather than brushes I love to experiment trying to create movement, usually sailing boats, sky and sea, and I am always looking at different techniques used by other artists to gain these effects.

As anybody who is self-taught will know, it is sometimes more difficult to assess what it is you are about to paint. If, on occasion, I am painting in a group I often find myself going off at a tangent to try to find what it is I am really looking for. My work at the end of the day rarely looks like everybody else’s and sometimes this is disturbing then other times I feel fortunate to be different.

Perhaps because I am not prohibited by having had a structured art education I don’t feel I have to conform to the rules and theories that I, presumably, would have learned and, inevitably, being the person that I am, would have followed. Whenever my work becomes too tight or too controlled, in any way restricted or confined, I don’t like it and I start again. I enjoy a freedom that I have never known before and because I have the space at my home in which to fulfil this I can express myself every day if I so wish and most days I do.

There is always something within me wanting to escape and every day that I paint I am striving to reproduce what I see and feel. Different times of year affect me greatly and then often I use colours that I feel and do not necessarily see. Some days the light in my studio changes so quickly and this too influences my paintings whether they become more atmospheric or lighter and brighter despite the vision I started off with.

Wherever I travel in the world I am captivated, as are most artists, by the light and its true magic. Being able to lose myself completely when I paint and to try to capture the wonderful feeling that this light gives to us all is my greatest luxury and my love for it will never cease, especially whilst I live here surrounded by such beauty.

I don’t know if I will ever find or be able to recreate what it is that I am searching for but whilst I am trying I like to think that when people take my paintings home with them they take a little bit of me as well as a little bit of Anglesey.