Art reflects nature’s beauty, seasons and sensations. “Art does not imitate nature, it imitates creation, sometimes to propose an alternative world, sometimes simply to amplify, to conffirm, to make social the brief hope offered by nature.”*

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My art records my response to nature and people. I search to find the connections to the living and built world. The vibrancy of a warm spring day. The austerity of a harsh winter frost. The eternity of a wild granite landscape. The slow and elegant decline of autumn. The cool caress of the breath of mist.  Late dew.

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I search so that I can preserve what is transitory and only holds us for an instant. The transcendence in my work is in the wholeness of nature as it constantly changes. I am absorbed by the inherent contradiction in laying down the energy of life in the permanence of paint and the flow of our perceptions in its texture, so I draw inspiration not only from the world but from the paint and materials I use. The past is also our present and our future. We all carry with us our past contact with nature, we all hear the voice of its evolution. We may never witness the conclusion of every story but I search to note and jot what lies between the green tip and the root. That’s what I’m doing. I hope your journey intersects with mine.

*John Berger on Art

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Education

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• Art and Design, Westminster College of Education, Oxford

• Sir John Cass College of Art, part-time

• The Slade, part-time

• The Open College of Arts, part-time

• Norfolk Painting School, Diploma, part-time

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Awards and Competitions

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• Finalist SAA Artist of the Year 2012

• Painting featured in the SAA Artist of the Year Diary 2014

• Painting featured on the cover of The Friargate Anthology 2015

• Winner of the Bridlington Paint-out Competition 2016

• Paintings longlisted for SAA Artist of the Year 2022

• Finalist SAA Artist of the Year 2023
   

Exhibitions

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• Knaresborough’s FEVA (Festival of Entertainment and Visual Art) annual since 2004

• Finalist Feren’s Art Gallery, Hull 2018

• Art in the Mill Gallery, 2020, 2021 and 2022