August 2022
My paintings are largely representational either reflecting a place or type of place or an idea.
Recent concepts address the ideas of journey, crossing borders and currently I have drifted towards mapping the landscape. These paintings are grid mapped suggesting two things; firstly, that each smaller grid is a composition within the whole and may be studied in isolation and secondly, the grids reflect longitude and latitude and locate the conceptual painting as a place somewhere. Current work includes dissecting and reformatting as if fragments of memory or a scene float above others.
My practice evolves like a journey without end but finds reassurance from anthropologist Tim Ingold “the wayfarer is always somewhere, yet somewhere is always on the way to somewhere else.”
I tend to use acrylic on canvas, paper or perspex but sometimes use watercolour. Each medium and surface presents a different experience in its application and, of course, a different representation. Acrylic ink dripped and tilted on perspex presents an uncertain outcome whereas painting in grids is more deliberate.
In 2019 I graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Arts University Bournemouth and work from a refurbished barn in the garden of my home in Wareham, Dorset. I am a member of Broadstone Art Society and a member of Bournemouth Art Club.
