New British Artists

“Eight years of extensive travel in my career inspired a series of large abstract paintings which drew inspiration from the diverse landscapes and cultures I encountered. These paintings referenced nature and the elements and concentrated on stylistic representations of the beauty around us, using earthy tones.

My artwork is labour intensive. The technique I use involves applying several layers of paint which is then superimposed with many, many thousands of individual dots of colour. These interact with the pattern below, following and overlapping the contours, giving a unique texture to the finished composition. This layering technique is further complicated because I often link one canvas to the next, so that whilst each painting stands alone they can also be hung together to form a storyboard.

I find the act of painting clears the mind and accesses the subconscious, generating a wide diversity of emotions echoed in the broad spectrum of colour. Now at home with my young children I have found that their innocence, hyperactivity, love of bright colour and intense examination of minutiae of everyday life have refreshed my view and freed my imagination. Poetry, film and music, especially pop songs form the ‘psychodelic’ era, play a part in the inspiration for my new works. These paintings are deliberately quirky, naive and fun. They relate to everyone's inner self, an escape from the everyday into an imaginary world of whimsy, colour and make believe. A refuge from the cares of the world."

Date of Birth: 1972
Education: BA Double Hons Art History and Scandanavian Studies
Oslo University: Art and Language

Exhibitions:
Love in Art, Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London 2004
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair 2004
New British Artists, Manchester Art Show 2004
Skylark Gallery, London 2005
Barbers Art Gallery 2005
My World, The Art House, Westbourne 2005
New British Artists, London Art Fair, Islington, 2005
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, 2005
New British Artists, Contemporary Art Fair Edinburgh, 2005
Affairs of the Heart, The Art House, Westbourne
New British Artists, The London Art Fair, Islington 2006
New British Artists, Art on Paper, Royal College of Art, London 2006
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2006
New British Artists, NewcastleGateshead Art Fair 2007
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2007
New British Artists, Northern Art Show, Harrogate, 2008
New British Artists, Glasgow Art Fair, 2008
New British Artists, 20/21 International Art Fair, London, 2009
New British Artists, Cambridge Art Fair, 2009
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2009
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, 2010
New British Artists, Chelsea Art Fair, London, 2010

Community Based Project 2006/7
Series of art works in conjunction with inmates of HM Prison Coldingley