A painting has a unique identity. Original art helps to reinforce a personality and individuality to a home. Something special to be enjoyed for many years.
HELLO, It’s nice to see you here! This is where you can learn a bit more about me and how I create my art out on location and back in the studio.
I am continually inspired by the breath-taking wild landscapes, and places that surround me. Specifically, I am fascinated by what makes these places unique. Transitions in the landscape catch my attention as well as the dynamics, and unique energies of different places. My drawings and paintings express my feelings about those places, their identity.
The marks of the landscape (the lines, dots, smears, patterns), the shapes and colours; in different weathers and seasons, are a visual and physical language of ‘them’. My expressive mixed media work on location and back in the studio, explores how to capture and translate these experiences into multi-layered dynamic abstract paintings. Collage, paint and other media are combined to create rich textural works with a sense of the place and a reflection of the passage of time.
“To paint not the thing but the effect it produces”
I grew up surrounded by heathland and the nurture of nature and landscape was my first love! A connection to, and relationship with the landscapes that surround me has perhaps been the one continuum in a varied career path.
Following a science degree and research career, I changed direction to landscape design. I graduated with a postgraduate diploma in Landscape architecture from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. My mixed media artwork on location and in the studio has evolved to reflect my fascination with the energy and identity of places and landscapes. In addition to creating mixed media art, I have a series of online courses that share my approaches using my projects as demonstrations.
Between March and June 2022 I had my first large joint exhibition (2-person show) at Oldham Art Gallery: Landscape Inside Out. You can read more about that on my blog. I also exhibited at Contemporary Art Fair Harrogate in October 2022. In the spring of 2023 I was accepted into The Manchester Academy of Fine Art (AMAFA).
My mixed media art has previously been shown as part of open exhibitions at Salford Art Gallery, Oldham Art Gallery, and at the Creative Recycling Gallery in Chorlton. I exhibited as part of Open Studios at Woodend Mill, Saddleworth for several years. Illustration works were commissioned by a range of commercial and private clients including Hotels, charities, architects and property developers.
My artwork is held in local and international private and public collections including the USA and Australia.