Artist statement
Concepts
I make prints and paintings responding to the local landscape. In a mostly arable landscape I necessarily engage with current farming techniques as well as the natural changes that occur. The work is intended to be a document as well as an expression.
Colour has become increasingly important to me as an expression of mood and atmosphere. As global warming takes effect there are dramatic and beautiful changes of colour in the fields. Pictorial structure and the edge of the image offer exciting scope to explore the space and scale in a landscape of huge fields.
More recently I have become interested in buildings on the land, structures whose uses are sometimes obscure.
Processes and techniques
Oil paint on canvas. Layering the paint. A lot of editing. Collagraph prints using chine colle, also carborundum for painterly marks. Etchings with carborundum.
Influences
environmental, semi-abstract
Career path
2011-2013 Works on consignment to Marlborough Graphics, London
2009 Represented by The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset
2002 Represented by Oliver Contemporary London
2002 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
2001 Catalogue written by Lynne Green to accompany touring exhibition, Growing Concerns, Financially assisted by Attendi Gallery, London; The Old Warehouse Gallery, Dorchester; Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester
1998 Commission for Diptych for Worthing Hospital, funded by Artplace, Arundel
1996 Elected Associate of Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
1995 Represented by Attendi Gallery, London
1993 R K Burt Etching Prize, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1989 Exhibition and Residency, The Chesil Gallery, Portland, Dorset, financially assisted by Southern Arts
1989/92 BA Hons, Fine Art, West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham
1967/69 Fine Art, Dip AD Course, Wimbledon School of Art
1965/66 Foundation Course, Winchester School of Art
Solo exhibitions
- 2010 Seeing Change, The John Creasy Museum, Salisbury
- 2010 Homeland - New Paintings & Prints, The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Child Okeford, Blandford, Dorset DT11 8HB
- 2008 On the Edge, Oliver Contemporary, London
- 2006 Colour Fields, Oliver Contemporary, London
- 2002 Growing Concerns, Attendi Gallery, London W4
- 2001 Growing Concerns, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
- 1997 Scratching the Surface, Attendi, London
- 1996 Scratching the Surface, Stansell Gallery, Taunton
- 1994 Landmarks, Southampton City Art gallery
Group exhibitions
- 2012 RE OPEN International Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
- 2012 Evolution: Frink and the Next Generation, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth
- 2011 In The Shadow of the Chase, Dorset County Museum & Salisbury Museum, Dorchester & Salisbury
- 2011 Print & Design Now, SW1 Gallery and Bearspace, London
- 2011 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, with Marlborough Graphics
- 2009 Open 2009 - Drawing, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire
- 2009 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy Of Arts, London
- 2008 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. Invited artist
- 2008 Arflex, Osaka & Tokyo, Japan
- 2008 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy Of Arts, London
- 2007 Arflex, Osaka & Tokyo, Japan
- 2007 Group Show, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
- 2005 Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London
- 2004 Elemental Insight, Met Office, Exeter; BBC, London; Museums at Derby and Canterbury etc
- 2004 Art 2004, Business Design Centre, London
- 2003 The Contemporary Landscape, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
- 2002 Land, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire
- 2002 The Discerning Eye, Mall Gallery, London
- 2002 In Praise of Trees, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury
- 2002 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
- 2001 National Print Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London
- 2000 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
- 1998 A Flight over Cranborne Chase, Salisbury Playhouse
- 1996 Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London
- 1995 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2009 Intaglio Printmaking Prize, Bankside Gallery, London.
- 2005 The Curwen Print Studio Prize, Bankside Gallery, London
Publications
- 2012 The Public Catalogue Foundation
- 2011 Art in The Shadow of the Chase
- 2009 Printmakers Secrets
- 2007 50 Wessex Artists (Evolver Books)
- 2005 Collagraphs and mixed media Printmaking
- 2004 Elemental Insight
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