Artist's Statement:

I am most attracted to landscape subjects from rural East Anglia, Wales, Scotland and Southern Ireland which I execute in a figurative way. The scenes I choose often speak to me as containing directional forces of energy which I interpret via relatively large, gestural brush strokes which I lay down first (liquid charcoal and watercolour). Whilst seemingly unnecessary to the onlooker, these marks provide a structural dynamic which feeds my mark making process and wherever preserved, are allowed to counterbalance subsequent layers of finer drawing work in charcoal and pastel. Colour is often minimised in preference to bold, graphic, blacks, blues, browns, light greys and whites. I aim to create drama in my work.

Biography:

Born in Jarrow in 1956, but brought up in the south of England from an early age.

Attended High Wycombe College of Further Education for a one year foundation course in Art and Design.

Completed a BA Hons. degree course in Graphic Design at Canterbury College of Art, qualifying in 1978. 

Have worked across numerous graphic design disciplines in the ensuing years. 

Awarded a Chartered Society of Designers Gold Award.

Typography juror for The Designers and Art Directors Association.

Visiting tutor to Canterbury College of Art

External assessor to Barnet College of Art 

Lives in Suffolk

Society Memberships:

The Pastel Society

Awards and Prizes:

The Pastel Society: First Prize Catalogue Award 2024

Derwent Art Prize: short list for the  2024 - exhibited at the Oxo Tower

Jacksons Art Prize: long list for the  2024

SkyArts Landscape Artist of the Year 2025 Pod Artist

Exhibitions:

The Pastel Society annual exhibitions

The Derwent Drawing Prize, The Oxo Tower, London 2024

Wales Contemporary: Guards Chapel London and The Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven 2025