About
I am a visual artist working mainly in the field of traditional painting with drawing, collage, fresco, encaustic & printmaking also playing an important role in my practice.
As a remote practitioner my interests lie in what is immediately near. Notions of the ‘geography of home’ – everyday absences, recollections and thresholds – crop up in much of my work. I am curious about the domain of glitches, improvisation and dissolution along with oblique explanations for the language of ‘vanitas.’
For some years now my research has focused on marginalia. Ideas for the work are re-imagined when snatches of the familiar collide with the idiosyncratic. This combination of the mundane, the marginal and the peculiar become tools I use to explore painting.
Most of all I am trying to understand the question ‘what can paint do?’
Biography
2016
M.A Fine Art The Arts University Bournemouth
2012
B.A Fine Art (Hons First Class) Plymouth University
2010
FdA Fine Art & Design Somerset College of Art & Design
2002
B.Sc Psychology (Hons) The Open University
B.1958 Lives & works in South West England
Exhibitions
2024
30 Works 30 days
Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives
2023
Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives
Art on a Postcard Summer Auction St Wilfred’s Hospice - Hepatitis Trust
12o 30 Works 30 Days
SAW Behind the Scenes Brewhouse Theatre Taunton
2022
Pedestrian 2 Octagon Theatre & Gallery Yeovil
Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives
2021
Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives
12o 30 Works 30 Days
SAW Open Studios Venue 44 East Coker
2020
Art on a Postcard Summer & Winter Auction - Hepatitis Trust
2019
Brewhouse Somerset Square Hoardings Exhibition Coal Orchard Taunton
Pedestrian Brewhouse Theatre & Art Centre Coal Orchard Taunton
Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives
Spring Exhibition C&G Gallery Tunbridge Wells
2018
Still Life Exhibition G&C Gallery Tunbridge Wells
Deck of Cards TLC Art Auction Lightbox Gallery Woking
Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives
Back & Beyond CIC Taunton
2017
21st National Open Art Exhibition Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf London
Town Hall Arts Open Market St Trowbridge
249th Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts Piccadilly London
Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives
The Observatory Exhibition The Forum University of Exeter
Threads Dundas Street Gallery 6 Dundas Street Edinburgh
M.A & Other Postgraduates Exhibition Atkinson Gallery Millfield Street
Threads Espacio Gallery 159 Bethnal Green Rd London
2016
East-West Art Award (EWAAC) La Galleria Pall Mall London
Suddenly Last Summer The Gallery The Arts University Bournemouth
GRAFT M.A.Show The Arts University Bournemouth
Time & Place: Art at the Heart The Royal United Hospital Bath
2015
Hand of Four SAW Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre Taunton
The Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Exhibition Bristol
Drawn Royal West of England Academy Bristol
Quartz Visual Arts Festival Queens College Taunton
Art on the Block: Art for Life Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton
2014
SAW Open Studios East Coker
Transformation Somerset Contemporary Artists Network (SCAN) Somerton
Quartz Visual Arts Festival Queens College Taunton
Art on the Block: Art for Life Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton
2013
SCAN Grant Bradley Gallery Bristol
One Voice, Many Colours Meeting House Ilminster
Quartz Visual Arts Festival Queens College Taunton
2012
SCAN The Meeting House Ilminster
38 Graduate Show Somerset College of Art & Design Taunton
Millfield Summer Show Atkinson Gallery Millfield Street
2011
Multicollored The Collar Factory Taunton
Cymistry The Crescent Contemporary Taunton
2010
The Art Bin The South London Gallery London