Attempting to dissect the formal language and ambition of art and to bring it to a more personal and elemental level, Trainor’s paintings represent a pure dialogue between human and nature, cause and effect. Using an abbreviated palette and scale to provoke, he is seeking an emotive connection from the viewer. With pattern, his paintings speak to how opposing forces can be both beautiful and overwhelmingly jarring, layered with distinct character.

As a landscape designer, Trainor has been collaborating with nature for 30 years. This collaboration is infused into his paintings where he is rethinking land and our manmade and natural systems - and his ideas are profoundly important today. By exploring the emotional, conceptual and physical intersections of change over time in the land around him, he raises essential questions about our place in the world and the evidence of our human existence in our natural environment.