March 2025
My paintings are largely semi-abstract either reflecting a place or type of place or an idea.
Most recent work has been in response to self written songs that have then been recorded. The songs ,like prior painting ,have reflected on situations and events.
Other concepts address the ideas of journey, crossing borders and 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.
