My work is a personal response of being in the landscape. Collecting natural materials, making site specific drawings and collating these experiences as memory, enables me to create paintings that explore the relationships between these references. I am interested in allowing the paintings to develop without any preconceived idea of its final result. I enable hierarchies to establish themselves within
My work is a personal response of being in the landscape. Collecting natural materials, making site specific drawings and collating these experiences as memory, enables me to create paintings that explore the relationships between these references. I am interested in allowing the paintings to develop without any preconceived idea of its final result. I enable hierarchies to establish themselves within the canvas, whether it is to do with the materiality of the oil paint, a particular form that is emerging, or a dominance of a particular colour. There is a constant interplay between these elements and myself - as the work develops, an image will eventually emerge that is a mix of recall, intuition and deliberation.
Lives and Works in Oxfordshire.
2004 Oxford Brookes, Fine Art (Honours) Degree, 1st Class
Solo
2014 Pennwood House, Oxfordshire, Joint with ceramicist Crabby Taylor
2012 Pennwood House, Oxfordshire
2011 Pennwood House, Oxfordshire
2010 North Wall, Oxford
2010 Oxford University Arboretum
2008 Pennwood House, Oxfordshire
2007 03 Gallery, Oxford
2006 Ovada, Oxford
Group
2015 Ovada Open, Oxford
2014 Oxford Botanic Garden
2013 RWA, Drawn, Bristol
2013 03 Gallery, Oxford
2012 Mall Galleries, The Threadneedle Prize, London
2012 RWA, 160th Open, Bristol
2012 Wells and Mendip Museum, WAC, Somerset
2012 Filament 14, Oxford
2011 RWA, 159th Open, Bristol
2011 Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford
2011 03 Gallery, Oxford
2009 Oxford University Arboretum
2009 O3 Gallery, Oxford
2009 Notfamousyet, Oxford
2008 Modern Art, Oxford
2007 Beldam Gallery, Brunel University
2005 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
2004 Modern Art Oxford
Collections
Public Catalogue Foundation, and numerous private collections world wide
Residencies
2009-10 Oxford University Arboretum
2010 Turbine House, Reading
2013 LifeBoat Studio, Porthleven
2015 Gower
2015 Filament 14, Magdalen Road Studios,Oxford
