"I think a lot of us in different ways go to the landscape to discover some notion of peace, or even a sense of scale. The great thing that happens when you spend a day or longer in the wilderness is that you come back subtly altered for a short period of time at least, with a different sense of proportion. Suddenly the whole world isn't revolving around your little sphere of activity. You suddenly have a greater humility. A lot of people seem to value that on different levels. I would like someone to metaphorically go for a walk in one of my paintings and to be able to sometimes contemplate on the grandeur and awesome massiveness of nature and at others, the detail of some beautiful little microcosm. Hopefully they would get some of feelings that they might experience from being in wilderness" James Hawkins