I am taking part in the #artistsupportpledge. It’s a simple supportive pledge to encourage the flow of income among artists to help the creative community in these challenging times. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have lost a lot of our income: teaching, exhibitions and sales have disappeared. In an attempt to alleviate some of this stress the pledge was set up by Matthew Burrows. The concept is a simple one, artists sell their works for less than £200 (plus postage and packing). Anyone can buy the work. Every time an artist reaches £1000 of sales, they pledge to spend £200 on another artists work. Please take a moment to browse my works on offer. I am adding to them over time. You can contact me directly or via the contact page. Thank you so much and stay safe.
Landscape-Inspired works
All these abstract landscape-inspired works represent a turning point and new way of working for me. I am using mixed media including collage to reflect my feelings about aspects of the landscape. As a landscape designer, I was fascinated by the materiality and layering of elements in the landscape. I am now starting to bring that fascination into my landscape paintings.
Landscape Layers ALL SOLD Ocean Drive SOLD Rainstorm (mixed media on aqua board 28 x 28 cm) £70 QuarryStone SOLD Autumn leaves and layers (mixed media on paper 30cm x 30 cm) £120 Autumn edges (mixed media on paper 30cm x 30 cm) £120 Autumn shapes and patterns (mixed media on paper 30cm x 30 cm) £120 Moving into autumn (mixed media on paper 30cm x 30 cm) £120
My new Lancashire Cotton Mills Series
I am so excited to be offering for sale as part of this initiative, small paintings from my ongoing Lancashire Cotton Mills Series. I have long had a fascination with these most stunning of buildings. As a child, I recall my awe at these impressive and austere buildings on my visits to Manchester. Now I have my studio in an old spinning and weaving mill! Not only am I in love with their stunning physical materiality, but also what they represent within the Lancashire landscape. For me, they are closely associated with belonging and place. A huge part of our industrial heritage. I seek to reflect their material characteristics, and drama as well as their more subtle, ethereal qualities, in decay. I seek to reflect and tell the story of some of the history through the inclusion of vintage texts about aspects of the mills.
Weaving Ways (Mixed media on board, framed, 30 cm x 30 cm) £195 Chimneys and Roofs (Mixed media on board, framed, 30 cm x 30 cm) £195 SOLD Wrought Iron and Gold (Mixed media on board, framed, 30 cm x 30 cm) £195 Spinning Around (Mixed media on board, framed, 30 cm x 30 cm) £195