About Me
My paintings are a response to the natural world; a celebration of the joy of being alive, the life force that surrounds and exists within us. The process involves me sharing my life force just as nature does with us; I seek to depict the energy transfer between things, to capture its essence. I then transfer my energy to the painting, where our energies intermingle.
I begin painting en plein air with watercolours, later developing the images into more lyrical works in the studio. The paintings move between abstraction and figuration - I am interested in pursuing a purity of line, light and colour. An untouched ground is critical to the work, allowing the viewer to see the gestural marks suspended in free space. I use a restricted palette of cyan, magenta and yellow with black and white - a play on the colours used in all commercial printing, CYMK. The colours represent the throwaway and toxic culture of our current society - a time when giclee printing is mass consumed as art.
By appreciating that energy is the life force of all things, I ask the viewer to look beyond the aesthetic of the natural world and appreciate it as a living being. In doing so I hope that a deeper appreciation of our planet will inspire people to look after it.
2025
1st October - 31st December Solo Exhibition, Metamorphosis, Middle Temple, London
15th-28th October Miniature Masters, Canal Boat Contemporary, London
23rd August - 28th September En Plein Air, Rye Art Gallery
6th -22nd June Joint Exhibition with Luana Asiasta, Lucy Merriman, Sara Giacomini, South East Open Studios
19th April - 24 May Group Show, Palette x Palette, The Old Bank, Dungarvan, Waterford, Ireland
14th April - 30th September Solo Exhibition, Oasis, Middle Temple, London
March - June Group Show, Amelia, Tunbridge Wells
March Group Show, Meander: Sussex Contemporary
2024
19th-22nd September Brighton Art Fair
June Joint Exhibition Abundance with Faye Bridgwater, South East Open Studios
March - May Samuel Palmer Visionary Landscapes, Sir Peter Blake Gallery, Dartford
January - March Samuel Palmer Visionary Landscapes, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
November - January 2024 The SVAF Open 2023 Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
2023
November Invited Artist ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
November Solo Exhibition Seven, Kingdom, Penshurst, Kent
March - November Artist in Residence: Kingdom, Penshurst, Kent
June South East Open Studios
June Connections Group Show: Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks