Since 2002 I have produced and exhibited sculptures, installations, site-specific art work, photographs, books and prints in galleries and outside in a rural context both in France and the UK.Much of my inspiration comes from the landscape and the observations of light and form evident in the place I live and work. I often search out simple everyday materials which not only reflect my interest in ordinary things but also can equally influence or suggest the direction that I may take. Sometimes the art work begins from a simple visual or tactile interest in the material itself (even the availability of materials such as found objects), Installations have been made of cling film, aluminium foil, plastic, wood, wax, found objects and wire and the camera lens has captured and added too many of these art works. As much of the work is site-specific, photography has become an important medium with which to convey my direct experience of making art work in the landscape onto the gallery wall. The camera lens has allowed me to more fully explore ideas in a way that painting could not although I continue to make paintings). Fleeting moments of light and form have taken me in unexpected directions and even fed back into my installations and sculptures.
Printmaking is also an extremely important element and has been a major inspiration, not only in my own work but as a job in which I have participated in many projects for artists such as Howard Hodgkin, Jim Dine, AR Penck, Joe Tilson, among many others since 1984. In recent years I have developed and concentrated on my own printmaking work which I am expanding in scale and concept with examples now held in private and public collections.
Above all I seek to always surprise myself looking to discover an authentic creativity of my human experience and emotion.
Bien que j'ai souvent utilisé la peinture depuis mon retour en France en 2002, j'ai également produit et exposé des sculptures, des installations, des oeuvres spécifiques pour un site, des photographies, des livres, des estampes, dans des galeries mais aussi à l'extérieur dans un contexte rural, tant en France qu'en Belgique et au Royaume-Uni.
Une grande partie de mon inspiration vient du paysage et de l'observation de la lumière dans l'endroit où je vis et où je travaille. Je cherche souvent des matériaux quotidiens simples qui, non seulement reflètent mon intérêt pour les choses ordinaires, mais aussi peuvent influencer ou suggérer la direction que je vais prendre. Parfois le travail artistique commence à partir d'un intérêt visuel ou tactile simple pour le matériau lui-même (même la disponibilité des matériaux tels que des objets trouvés). Des installations ont été faites avec du film plastique, du papier d'aluminium, du plastique, du bois, de la cire, des objets trouvés et du fil, et l'objectif de la caméra a capturé et ajouté un si grand nombre d'oeuvres que cela m'a permis d'explorer plus en détail les idées d'une manière que je ne pouvais pas faire avec la peinture. Des moments fugaces de la lumière et de la forme m'ont conduit dans des directions inattendues et même renvoyé à mes installations et mes sculptures
Je suis actuellement en résidence à l'atelier d'impression de l'Ecole d'Arts plastiques de Châtellerault et travaille aussi dans mon propre atelier au Petit Pressigny. L'estampe est un langage naturel d'expression pour moi avec le processus du dessin, des lignes et des marques qui est peut-être le coeur de tout ce que je fais. Avant tout, j'aspire à me surprendre moi-même en cherchant à découvrir une créativité authentique à partir de mon expérience humaine et de l'émotion.
Commissions, prints, printmaking
Ø 2018 new edition,’ River’ for Courtney Holton. Atelier 1931
Ø 2018 stages, variouse, printmaking and drawing.
Ø 2017 two Editions for Courtney Holton. Atelier 1931
2017 open studio, new editions, installation ‘Cycle de Vie’
Ø 2016 : Atelier 1931 Portes Ouveres, New prints and paintings. April and December.
Ø 2016 : two Editions for Courtney Holton. Rosa Paul and Chief. Atelier 1931
2015 print residency at the Ecole d’Arts plastique, Châtellerault
Ø 2014 Atelier 1931 ‘New Prints’ a series of woodcut and monotype images based on the landscape and ideas about proliferation and diversity.
Ø 2011: Intaglio print ‘Angel At My Table’, edition of 10 with 4 AP’s woodcut for l’Artothèque de Châtellerault and national collection
Ø 2010: Print ‘Light Works’ printed at l’Ecole d’Arts Plastiques de Châtellerault.
Ø 2009-2011: freelance printmaking at 107 Workshop : for Howard Hodgkin ‘As Time Goes By’, Gillian Ayres, Patrick Hughes, Oleg Kudryashov, John Eaves, Anthony Fry, Deborah Bell and Emma Stibbon RA,
Ø 2006: Digital print ‘Slow News’ (‘Starburst’), edition of 15 with 4 AP’s for Les Amis de l’Artothèque, Ecole d'Arts Plastiques de Châtellerault.
Ø 2005: “Flux”, privately commissioned photography installation for Prodige-e, Tours, France.
Ø 1995-98: Lithography and intaglio printmaking at107 Workshop (GB); Projects for Howard Hodgkin Gillian Ayres, Patrick Hughes, William Kentridge, Oleg Kudryarshov and others.
Ø 1994: Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris. Lithographic studio (Stone and plate). Projects for Jaume Plensa and José Maria Sicilia. among others.
Ø 1984-92: 107 Workshop (GB intaglio printmaking including techniques such as carborundum etching, woodcut, mono type etc. Projects for Howard Hodgkin, Joe Tilson, Gillian Ayres, Victor Pasmore, John Hubbard, David Inshaw, A.R. Penck, Patrick Hughes Anthony Fry, Jim Dine, William Kentridge, Michael Heindorff among many others..
Collections
Ø Artothèque de Châtellerault
Ø Bibliothèque National de Paris
Ø Artothèque d’Angoulême
Ø Bibliothèque du Petit Pressigny
Ø Private collections
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2018 dix-mille ans, installation, Espace Mosé, la Roche Posay
2018 Ocean Bloom, installation Le Pressoir, Chédigny
2016 Espace Mosé. New prints and painitings on doors.
2015 Rhythmcal landscapes, Alpha Consulting, Antwerp
2014 Ocean Bloom, installation, Artcuterie Gallery Poitiers
2012 Frome Festival. ‘Postcards from a Quiet Landscape’
2009 Atelier 1931, (Constructs, Photos, Paintings), France
2008 Fragments, Espace Mose, La Roche Posay, France
2008 Awakenings, Atelier 1931, Chaumussay
2008 Awakenings, Parsons Gallery, Paris
2008 ‘World Disco’ Installation, Les Eco-festivités, France
2007 ‘World Disco’ installation, Atelier 1931, Chaumussay, France
2004 Commencements et aboutissements, MCL, La Roche-Posay, France
2002 Retrospective, The Garden Cafe, Frome
2000 Cutting Edges, The Meeting House Gallery, Ilminster
1999 Bell Street Gallery, Shaftesbury
1998 West End Gallery, Saint Mary’s Church, Nottingham
1997 Round Tower, Black Swan Gallery, Frome
1997 Bell Street Gallery, Shaftesbury
Selected mixed exhibitions:
2018 L’art pur la Paix, World Disco installation, La Riche Tours
2018 Thoughful Planet 2, Light Catcher, Thought Foundation, Birtley, UK
2018 Les artistes de petit pressigny, portes ouverties
2017 Hope in the Dark, Reg Lenna Centre for the Arts, New York State, USA
2017 St Ives, Crypt Gallery, summer exhibition.
2017 Naturally Sculpture, Burghley House Sculture Gardens, Stamford UK
2016 exhibtion, Chichester UK.
2016 journée portes ouvertes à léglise st Martin.
2015 Funny Ha Ha, Burghely Sculpture Garden, Lincolnshire, UK
2015 centre d’Art de Puyguerin, 86 saires, prints
2013 L’art et lard, Sentient Forms, Le Petit Pressigny
2013 Châtellerault Festival, Ocean Bloom installation.
2013 Juliana’s Bike, Leeds art centre
2012 Photofolies En Touraine, Chateau de la Guerche
2012 Parallax Art Fair, London
2011 Anemones installation, L’art et Lard, Le Petit Pressigny
2011 Parallax Art Fair, London.
2010 Frome Festival. ‘Look’.
2010 Château de la Celle Guenand, Photofolies ‘Light Catcher’
2010 Veuil, ‘Grandeur Nature’
2009 Feast installation, L’Art et Lard, Le Petit Pressigny
2008 Tradition et Avant-Gardes, (Photofolies en Touraine), Château de Saché,
2008 Exposition pour Photofolies en Touraine, Château de Bleré, Bleré, France
2008 World Disco installation, L’Art et Lard, Le Petit Pressigny, France
2006 ‘Slow News’, Ecole d’Arts Plastiques, Châtellerault, France.
2001 Six's and Seven's (art group), Cooper-Bussman factory, Frome festival
2001 Six's and Seven's (art group) Walcot Chapel, Bath
2001 Somerset Arts Week, The Cheese Yard, and sculpture trail, Wells
2000 Restoration, Resurrection, Midsomer-Norton Methodist Church
1999 Off the Shelf III, Sherborne Contemporary Arts
1999 6, maybe 7, The Meeting House Gallery, Ilminster
1998 Off the Shelf II, Sherborne Contemporary Arts
1998 Images in the Abstract, Salisbury Playhouse
1998 Somerset Arts Week, Three Artists, Witham Hole
1998 Window Shopping, Sherborne Contemporary Arts
1997 Off the Shelf, Sherborne Contemporary Arts
1995 Nomades, Galerie Graphes, Paris, France
1995 Nathalie Beeckman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1995 Portes Ouvertes, Belleville, Paris, France
1995 4 artistes, U.C.J.G. Gallery, Paris, France
1994 Portes Ouvertes, Belleville, Paris, France
1991 C.C.A. Gallery, Farnham
1991 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1989 Leicester City Council – graduates 89