“My style is very spontaneous – a build up of textures and layers. In each painting I never quite know what’s going to happen with it, I like to see how the layers build up. I generally start with a rough sketch in pencil and build on that. It might be that there are several paintings on top of each other - it’s not always one painting.
I tend to work on the floor rather than an easel, so that I can pick the canvas up and move the paint around. As a result there’s lots of fluid movement in my paintings and a contrast of many textures. I get the first coat on with a paint brush, then use palette knives, kitchen knives, rulers, whatever I need to get textures. I feel my paintings are expressionistic representations of the environment rather than literal landscapes.
I am interested in the power of a landscape over a person and the relative vulnerability of that person within the landscape. Scale and impact are both important in my paintings. I paint rapidly and with energy, using layers of texture and colour.”
Exhibitions:
New British Artists, Cambridge Art Fair, 2009
Open Studios, 2009
Innocent Fine Art, Bristol, 2009
Berkley Square Group Exhibition, 2009
Bordeaux Quay, Bristol, ongoing supply of paintings
Glasgow Group Exhibition, Scotlandart, 2009
Edinburgh Art Fair, Scotlandart, 2009
Royal West of England Acadamy Autumn Show, 2009 - Shortlisted Emerging Artist Award
Mid Cornwall Galleries, 2009
Studio18, Group Exhibition, Jersey, Channel Isles, 2009
Gallery Tresco, Tresco Island, Winter Residency
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London, 2009
Windsor and Newton Artist collaboration
New British Artists, Chelsea Art Fair, London, 2010
Commission: Museum of Hereford 2010 - series of paintings of the Black Moutains
