My practice reflects the fundamental need to express the bitter-sweet nature of the human condition through abstracted scape and form. I find inspiration from my core connection to the Devon scape, memories, relationships, absence and presence, darkness and light, loss and vulnerability. During the painting process I build a reverberating relationship with the canvas, a push and pull of chance and control. As much is taken away from the painting as is added, with constant building and washing of the canvas, aiming to invoke an atmosphere drawn from both the process and the initial emotional trigger. My work is metaphorical, ambiguous, chimerical, organic and elemental.

My Photography, my way of Painting whilst traveling, extracts illusionary space and form, from sometimes cramped and chaotic environments in Europe, urban India, the Far East, and Cuba. I photograph marks, decay and textures, some of which have been laid down by others with previous intent, which become abstract worlds and fictional places. I have also found a developing symbiosis between my Photography and my Painting.

In 2007 I returned to work full time as an artist after a 25 year career as a production set designer for stage and screen. I originally graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art in 1979, practiced as a performance artist in the early 1980’s, with funding from ACE, and went on to study Set Design at Chelsea College of Art working for the BBC as a senior production set designer, and later as a freelancer for all major channels. During this time I also lectured in art and design in various colleges including Chelsea College of Art and Nottingham University.

My work is held in the permanent collection of Keble College Oxford, by the Director of Jestico + Whiles Architects London, the President of the Boston Children's Museum USA, a Senior Economist at Goldman Sachs International London and many other private collections worldwide. I have exhibited widely in galleries and fairs throughout the UK and London.

I now live and work in Devon and the East End of London.

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Solo Exhibitions / Performance Art

Group Exhibitions

Television Production Design

Design

Teaching / Lecturing

Publications

Notable Public and Private Collectios