Artist statement
My work is mostly landscape based, from looking and working in situ or from memories and drawings completed in my studio. I paint in oil on boards no larger than twenty inches by twenty, sometimes repainting and redrawing over many months allowing different images to come and go often returning to the original structure and drawing.
Ultimately I am trying to paint more than the obvious and strip the content to its bare bones, often this results in the destruction of the painting until the next session.
Along with painting I use printmaking especially drypoint, etching and monotype as these are all very direct methods of catching shapes, moods and atmosphere. Again I often work in locations and return to the studio to simplify the images. These are also quite small, three or four inches up to twelve inches at the most.
In both my painting and printmaking drawing is the structure upon which everything else hangs. Keeping the images small, for me, increases the intensity.
Qualifications and training
- 2012 BA History of Art., Birkbeck University, London
- 1985 Postgraduate Printmaking, Central School of Art, London
- 1981 BA Honours, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
Solo exhibitions
- 2010 Pastels and Prints, Ropewalk Contemporary Art and Craft, Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire.
Group exhibitions
- 2008 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
- 2008 The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside gallery, London
- 2008 Lincolnshire Open, Ropewalk Gallery, Lincolnshire
- 2006 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
- 2005 Love for Sale, Bankside Gallery, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2008 Lincolnshire Open Intaglio Print Prize., Ropewalk Gallery., Barton, Linconshire.
