Background

I paint full-time following a career with a creative studio allied to the film and advertising industry. This media work provided artistic experience in specialised techniques and creative paint applications that supplemented traditional art school training in London and Eastboume.

About My Work

I enjoy the creative freedom of taking reality towards a more abstracted vision in my paintings. Radiant, intense, often contrasting but harmonized colours ['colours to stir the sensual depths of man' - Matisse] and the materiality of the paint are worked to produce subjective interpretations of nature. Paintings expressing the essence and luminosity of sunsets, that time-frame of changing colours and impending dusk, are a continuing theme.

I work on block canvases or on board but also adopt less conventional surface materials and textural effects that provide a relief element. These have included the multi-lathed surface of Sterling board, high relief hand-made paper, Linoleum flooring and the sculptured trays of chocolate boxes (receiving two awards).

My works have been commissioned by the internationally renowned Classical music consort Phantasm to illustrate three CDs released by Avie Records.

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