Artist statement
I live on the east coast. Each day I make drawings about things happening in the landscape; often returning to the same places for months at a time, sometimes just walking and seeing what happens. I use these drawings in the studio to improvise and rehearse possible ways to turn observation into painting. I look for things in the drawings that seem true, alive and unexpected. I want the paintings to be direct and honest; to have the weight of an observed fact and the passion of something meant; but there is little point repeating things or making things that already exist so I aim for those moments of revelation and surprise when the thing on the studio wall assumes a life of its own.
Solo exhibitions
- 2013 The Shapes of Light, Messum's, London
- 2011 Borderlines, Messum's, London
- 2010 Promenade, University of Essex Gallery, Essex
- 2010 On the Road, Walton Fine Art, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
- 2009 New Paintings, Messum's, London
- 2008 Get Constable, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich, Suffolk
- 2007 Beaches, Boats and Gardens, Horace Blue, Norwich, Norfolk
- 2007 Garden Paintings, North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex
- 2003 Another day on the beach, firstsite, Colchester, Essex
- 2002 East Coast Paintings, Chappel Galleries, Chappel, Essex
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Marmite Prize IV, touring, various venues
- 2012 New East Anglian Painting, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk
- 2012 Bacon to Rego, Abbot Hall Gallery, Cumbria
- 2012 Bacon to Rego: Great Artists, Abbot Hall, Cumbria
- 2011 Messum's, Toronto International Art Fair, Canada
- 2011 Contemporary Perspectives on Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London
- 2010 Messums, Toronto International Art Fair, Canada
- 2010 Threadneedle Prize exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
- 2008 East Coast Influences, Messum's, London
- 2007 Looking Forward-30 British Artists, Agnew's, London
- 2007 East Coast Influences, Messum's, London
- 2006 Atelier, Messums, London
- 2005 Stay, Great Eastern Hotel, London
- 2004 Painting is Dead, Long Live Painting, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings
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