New British Artists

"My first paintings were photorealistic studies of the skies out of my dorm window at university. The intensity of colour coupled with the dense black outline of buildings captured my imagination. Over time the paintings documented the subtle changes in my view, from the appearance of leaves on the trees to the extension being built on my neighbour's house.

My continuing studies at Cambridge into he nature of Photorealistic painting have informed my new Positive/Negative works. These are an attempt to blur the boundaries between photorealistic painting and digital photography. I begin by taking many photographs of locations and people from which I create a unique painted composition. The painting is therefore not a direct copy of any existing photograph.

Using negative colours I paint in acrylics, painstakingly progressing across the canvas from left to right. I photograph the painting many hundreds of times in order to ensure that the reverse ‘positive colour’ image will be true to real life. Next, the completed painting is scanned and ‘flipped’ on the computer - made negative - resulting in a unique image of the painting in realistic colours. This image is then produced as a one-off photograph, printed on archival Kodak paper, and mounted in order that it can hang side by side with the original painting as a ‘Positive/Negative Diptych’. The painting is therefore the ‘Positive’ image and the photograph is the ‘Negative’. The diptych also makes the separation of the ‘original’ from the ‘reproduction’ and the ‘painted’ from the ‘printed’ more difficult to define.

D.O.B. 1985

Education: B.A. English (First)
Currently undertaking post graduate studies in English

Exhibitions:

New British Artists, Anglian Contemporary Art Fair, Braintree 2005
Nottingham University School of Education
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London, 2005
Brighton Artists Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2005
New British Artists, Contemporary Art Fair Edinburgh 2005
Nottingham Castle Exhibition 2005
New British Artists, Art on Paper, Royal College of Art 2006
Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, 2006
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2006
New British Artists, Dulwich Art Fair, London, 2006
Applause Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 2007
Chameleon Gallery, Brighton, 2007
Djangoly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 2007
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2007
New British Artists, Northern Art Show, Harrogate, 2008
New British Artists, Glasgow Art Fair, 2008
Stark Gallery Summer Exhibition, Canterbury, 2008
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2008
Stark Gallery Winter Exhibition London 2008
Cambridge Art Fair 2008
Edinburgh Art Fair 2008
King's College Exhibition, Cambridge 2008
New British Artists, 20/21 International Art Fair, Royal College of Art, 2009
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London, 2009
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, 2010
New British Artists, Chelsea Art Fair, 2010