"Daniel Adams has always known that he wanted to be a painter. At the age of seven he persuaded his father to turn the family garage into a painting studio. When the time came to choose an art college, Daniel spent days visiting each of the colleges to find the intensive, academic and practical tuition he wanted.

This long process of elimination eventually brought him to Canterbury Christ Church University. Here he was able to study the alchemy of painting and pigments, and the mathematics which are the foundation of painting. Grammar is necessary as a foundation of language but it is the expressive use of language which communicates ideas, not the grammar. So it is with painting. The maths are there in the background but it is through the butteriness or leanness of the paint, the rhythm of the brushstrokes, the pigments used - and how those pigments behave in relation to each other - that the artist communicates his ideas.

Most of us "have eyes, but do not see". Daniel Adams' paintings of Dartmoor reveal to us the colour, light and luminosity of our landscape. The paintings take us on a journey of discovery, in his inspiring company."

Nicky Heyworth, Monks Withecombe Gallery, Chagford, Devon.

Daniel hopes you enjoy this collection of images of his recent paintings.