This series of paintings is work from a residency on the Isle of Kerrera, Scotland in June 2013. After first being bewildered by the landscape, the paintings took on an imaginary conversation between poet John Keats (who like us visited the Isle) and James K. Baxter, the New Zealand poet who in his early days was influenced by Keats. Keats was essentially a romantic poet; Baxter became known as a social and cultural conscience through his poetry. These seemingly disparate views melded well within the complexity of the Kerrera landscape—a conversation that used the metaphors of the land.