About

Resonate series

My abstract work has grown out of my seascape paintings. I wanted to explore the same sense of memory but concentrate instead on the intermingling relationships of landscape. We often look back at places we’ve been and recall shapes, line, curves and how it felt, not the fine detail. This series of paintings are based on these recollections, the soft reflections and glimpses against strong shape and line. I choose to use rich and earthy pigments which tie them in a landscape setting and the continued use of dripping paint connect them to water with its continuous movement. They involve months of building layers of oil paint, this process allows the canvas to gain a sense of depth and history, I leave glimmers and hints of each layer to create a sense of past, a deeper sense of memory, and a canvas where colour, shape and marks resonates within the space. Their purpose is to evoke a sense of calm, a sense of peace and of harmony.

Connection series:

I have recently started to abstract the elements of these paintings even further, back to line, shape and colour. The elements should be in sync, sit with each other, just as we seek connections that harmonise with us, these connecting shapes sit in tranquility. This body of work is called the connection series and hopes to find pleasure and calm in the way shape and colour sit with each other. I think of them as painted sculptures, they have weight, balance and structure, they have presence and purpose, which takes months of exploration to achieve. These works connect back to my influences from the abstract expressionists who reinterpreted the landscape around them, such as Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo and Ben Nicholson.

Lino Cuts

My latest series of work is a continuation of the connection series. These are inspired by a sense of cartography, the lines of rivers and mountains against the straight geometric arrangement of ley lines, all of which tie them back to landscape. Each section is a separate lino cut relief print and the paper itself becomes part of the artwork, some pieces being up to 200 years old. Each grouping gets rearranged and sometimes cut up and collaged back together to create a piece that like my other work evokes a sense of unity, calm and harmony.

Examples of my work are in Columbia Road Gallery, MAH gallery London, Soho Home and Soho Home LA

Selected galleries:

Columbia Road Gallery - ongoing

Soho Home - LA July 2022

Soho Home - westbourne Grove London

Royal Academy - Summer show 2022

Smithson projects 2023

Cameron Contemporary - Hove