I am an artist with painting and drawing at the heart of my practice. Central to my practice is the use of pure colour which I make from pigments. My work has always been about place, specific visited places in response to particular landscape features that have had a profound effect on me, mostly in tidal and coastal areas and so distinctly understood by drawing directly. I use drawing and painting as a visual language to express my most inner thoughts and emotions.This painting is part of a large body of work aimed at addressing and discussing the current environmental issues, the effect climate change and in particular global warming is having on the natural world. Inspired by revisiting the North Cornish Coast responding to the effect enormous natural landscape features in painting and the drawn mark.
I graduated from Bath Spa University with a Masters Degree in Fine Art, 2014-15 and from the University of the West of England with a first class honours degree in Drawing and Applied arts, 2011-14.
I have exhibited nationally & internationally. Exhibitions include John Moores Painting Prize, 2018, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (group) Jackson’s Open Painting Prize, 2019 & 2023, London (group) Academician Candidate Exhibition, 2019 & 2023, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (group) Beep Painting Prize Biennial, 2020 & 2022, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (group) Prize winner London Sunny Art Prize, 2022, Sunny Art Centre, London (group) Prize winner Bath Open art prize 2023 Bath (group) Contemporary Six Annual Open Call, 2023, Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester UK, (group) Arcadia for all? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now, 2023, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, (group) Royal Academy of Arts summer show 2023, Royal Academy of Arts, London (group) Essence of Place, 2023, That Art Gallery, Bristol, UK (solo). My work is held in private collections in the UK, USA and Switzerland.